Hi, I found some interesting article about BASIC: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/47035 (in German)... It first worked 40 years ago today. The inventors slept while students finally made it to get it running for them :-).
The history of Microsoft is closely related to BASIC, too. Bill Gates complained in an open letter from 1976 that piracy kills his revenues after development efforts which he tells to be equivalent to 40k USD: http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/gateswhine.html You can NOW start sending flowers, meals and gold bars to all FreeDOS developers. They have problems with revenues, too ;-). Eric. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
