I still have Microsoft's first product somewhere, in my garage I think. 4K and 8K BASIC on Paper tape.
Alas, no paper tape reader anymore.. On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 01:30:33PM -0500, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote: > Microsoft loves to take languages developed by others and transmogrify them > into the "Microsoft Universe". > > Quick Basic, Visual Java, Visual Basic, Visual C# (barely resembles C) and > the worst offender of all Visual C++ .NET. > > Your post reminded me that Postscript is an actual programming language as > well. > > > > On 5/2/2024 11:24 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > > I'll add a postscript with my reaction upon seeing my first Microsoft > > Visual BASIC program code: > > > > "What the hell is this? It's not BASIC!" > > > > --Chuck > > > -- Bill Duncan, | http://billduncan.org/ bdun...@beachnet.org | - linux/unix/network/cloud +1 416 697-9315 | - performance engineering, SRE
