Re: [Freedos-user] 40 years of BASIC

2004-05-02 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sun, 2 May 2004 00:47:28 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Hi Eric, >You can NOW start sending flowers, meals and gold bars to all >FreeDOS developers. They have problems with revenues, too ;-). Sure, otherwise we can have a bit more time to work on FreeDOS. You can live without gold bars but die of

[Freedos-user] 40 years of BASIC

2004-05-01 Thread Eric Auer
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 Gat