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Re:Time for Gates to go, some top Microsoft investors tell b... by marshray on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @02:18AM (#6480968)
Gates, who kickstarted Microsoft by personally implementing a full BASIC interpreter in 1024 bytes of ROM, had infinitely more tech skills than Jobs, who if recent biographies are to be believed went to his deathbed still believing the Apple II invented the switch-mode computer power supply.
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Re:Time for Gates to go, some top Microsoft investors tell b... by rbanffy on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @02:55AM (#6481081)
I believe Paul Allen had a much larger role in Microsoft's BASIC development than you imply.

I'm also unaware of any 1024-byte full BASIC interpreter.

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Re:Time for Gates to go, some top Microsoft investors tell b... by marshray on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @02:57AM (#6481084)
Sorry, I did not mean for it to sound so much like it was a one-man show.

And yes, I misremembered, it was more like 4096 bytes. http://web.archive.org/web/20011211233332/www.rjh.org.uk/alt...

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