Old Microsoft stuff...

From: Hotze <photze_at_batelco.com.bh>
Date: Mon Jun 15 11:54:54 1998

I guess you're right. But still... er... um...
    Tim D. Hotze
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Shoppa <shoppa_at_alph02.triumf.ca>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: Old Microsoft stuff...


>> Yep. I know that. But MS dominance didn't exactly happen overnight.
They
>> didn't have much of a hold in anything until the IBM PC took off...
>
>I'd disagree with you here. Microsoft had a much broader scope before
>the IBM PC, selling hundreds of pieces of software for dozens of
>different platforms. And certainly a plurality, if not a majority, of
8-bit
>home micros booted straight into Microsoft BASIC. Just about every
>consumer-oriented-everything-in-a-box CP/M system came bundled with
>MBASIC!
>
>Tim.
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