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  2. From: Henry Cross <hcross@ix.netcom.com>
  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: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 06:34:48 -0800
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  15.  
  16. prof.ir. M. Tels wrote:
  17. [...]
  18. > This is not completely true. "Microsoft" (or what was to become Microsoft)
  19. > invented BASIC. And the first control program for the Altair.
  20.  
  21.   That's funny my history books say BASIC was "invented" at Dartmouth.
  22. Your history book wasn't by any chance published by MicroSoft Press
  23. was it? :)
  24.  
  25. H.Cross
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