>
> Max Eskin wrote:
>
> > > BASIC Interpreter, Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Monte Davidoff, will be glad
> > > to assist you."
> > > So, where is Monte these days? I haven't heard of him before.
> > > A
>
> I worked with him many years ago at Gavilan. He did not like BillG and
> turned down the the job BillG ofered him.
An Altavista on Monte's name turned up 17 hits. One of them is a Bill Gates
"biography" that reads like an M$ PR sheet. Monte is given credit for
writing math routines for Bill's first BASIC, circa 1975.
The article is at
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Gates.html
-ethan
Received on Tue Jan 26 1999 - 08:05:05 GMT