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  1. Path: csugrad.cs.vt.edu!not-for-mail
  2. From: cremeans@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Lee Cremeans)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.2600,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm
  4. Subject: Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!-----OS2???
  5. Followup-To: alt.2600,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm
  6. Date: 21 Feb 1996 23:07:58 -0500
  7. Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
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  12.  
  13. prof.ir. M. Tels (telsmb@iaehv.iaehv.nl) wrote:
  14. : markus@nbnet.nb.ca (Jurassic Mark) wrote:
  15.  
  16. : >But don't get me wrong, Warp has _brilliant_ ideas inside that I would
  17. : >LOVE to see on NT.  SOM and OpenDOC for instance.  If only Microsoft
  18. : >would drop the "not invented here" philosophy...
  19.  
  20. : Microsoft doesn't have a "not invented here" philosophy; they can't 
  21. : possibly. They haven't invented anything themselves since Allen and Gates 
  22. : wrote the code for the first version of BASIC.
  23.  
  24. And even then, that was only a port!  BASIC itself was invented by Profs.
  25. Kemeny and Kurtz at Dartmouth in 1964, and besides, there had been versions
  26. of Tiny BASIC floating around for quite a while before Gates and Allen
  27. wrote their Altair BASIC!
  28.  
  29. (I know, I'm only 18, but I've read several computer history books...)
  30.  
  31. Lee C. at school
  32.  
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