• Subject: Re: Bill Gate$.
  • From: email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (James W Kilgore)
  • Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 10:28:55 -0800
  • Organization: Progressive Data Systems, Inc.

Eric,

Up here, in the Northwest, the story is that Bill and Co. bought QBasic.

eric.delong@pmsi-services.com wrote:
> 
>      Well, strictly speaking, Bill and Co. did in fact write their first
>      product. Microsoft Basic for all of the homebrew PCs back in the dark
>      ages. While it was not really a "new" product in terms of function,
>      they did make it to support a market that had nothing else to work
>      with (sounds familiar, huh? <g>)
>
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