<From: "Hotze" <photze_at_batelco.com.bh>
<Hi. Now, I don't want to start a flamewar, but still, Microsoft HAS play
<an important part in personal computing, for better or for worse. From 1
<or so onwards, they were a industry dominator.
First off your dates are grossly in error. MS in the persona of Gates
was involved in putting basic on the altair via MITS. When CP/M was
gaining ground as the dominent 8080/z80 OS microsoft was the dominent
language supplier. The majik system was a z80 running cp/m and MSbasic
compiler, MAC and L80, and maybe Multiplan.
<for say... the Apple II? PDP's? UN*X boxes (once again, omitting curren
<ports of IE 4.0)?
Apple: Apple softcard combind package of CP/M and MS languges and a z80.
TRS80: Disk basic.
PDP-11: Didn't MS do a unix varient?
UNix... they did have a hand in a PC unix and apps for it.
Allison
Received on Mon Jun 15 1998 - 10:51:21 BST