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- From: worc0223@sable.ox.ac.uk (Benjamin Hutchings)
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- Subject: Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!-----OS2???
- Date: 26 Feb 1996 13:50:44 GMT
- Organization: Oxford University, England
- Message-ID: <4gsdrk$4i8@news.ox.ac.uk>
- References: <4d9iri$7n0@news.mcn.net> <4ggvdh$a1c@phobos.Candle.Com> <4girde$kej@iaehv.IAEhv.nl> <312DD088.74E2@ix.netcom.com>
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- In article <312DD088.74E2@ix.netcom.com>,
- Henry Cross <hcross@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
- >prof.ir. M. Tels wrote:
- >[...]
- >> This is not completely true. "Microsoft" (or what was to become Microsoft)
- >> invented BASIC. And the first control program for the Altair.
- >
- > That's funny my history books say BASIC was "invented" at Dartmouth.
- >Your history book wasn't by any chance published by MicroSoft Press
- >was it? :)
-
- He probably read it out of Encarta Encyclopaedia, which contains this lie,
- so I am told.
-
- Anyway, why are you using Windows 95 to post?
-
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- Ben Hutchings, student. Finger me on worc0223@sable.ox.ac.uk for various info.
- email: benjamin.hutchings@worc.ox.ac.uk WWW: http://sable.ox.ac.uk/~worc0223/
- Users of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your Micro$oft software
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