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  2. From: neilz@accessus.net (Neil Zampella)
  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. Date: 23 Feb 1996 07:26:50 GMT
  6. Organization: accessU.S.
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  12. In message yatt.alaska.net> <4gdrbh$a7u@news1.mnsinc.com> <4gftpo$1g4k@darwin.n
  13. bnet.nb.ca> <4gg45u$41o@iaehv.IAEhv.nl> <4ggvdh$a1c@phobos.Candle.Com> - "prof.ir. M. Tels" <telsmb@iaehv.iaehv.nl> writes:
  14. :>
  15. :>rgoer@rgoer.candle.com (Ralph Goers) wrote:
  16. :>
  17. :>>You're sorta right.  Microsoft hasn't invented anything. However, all
  18. :>>the technology that they use, they own.  How? When new technology comes
  19. :>>along they buy it and the company that invented it if possible.  Then,
  20. :>>of course, they change it just enough to break any competitors using it.
  21. :>
  22. :>This is not completely true. "Microsoft" (or what was to become Microsoft) 
  23. :>invented BASIC. And the first control program for the Altair.
  24.  
  25.  
  26. Not true either ... although Gates would have you believing it.  BASIC was
  27. invented at Dartmouth. I was using a version of Basic running on a CYBER170
  28. in 1980.  I believe the first versions were out early 70s.
  29.  
  30.  
  31. <some deletia> 
  32.  
  33. :>-- 
  34. :>*  Ben Tels       |   Let op: Ben Tels is NIET Martinus Tels!     *
  35. :>*  proudly part   |     Where Star Trek and DiscWorld meet,       *
  36. :>*  of the         |          There you shall find me.             *
  37. :>*  telsmb entity  |   Attention: Ben Tels is NOT Martinus Tels    *
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  43. Neil Zampella
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