RE: New Poll Question

["Morton, Christopher" <CMorton -at- caiso -dot- com>]

Well, the Steves didn't buy diddly from PARC... they *liberated* it, as
did M$ via PARC-renegade Charles Simonyi. Hence Apple's long-running GUI
lawsuit against M$ back in the late 80's was a joke. By the time XEROX
woke up and joined the fray to sue both, the party was already over;
they didn't have a leg to stand on.

> Chris Morton

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Morton, Christopher wrote:

>I think this is bunk, Al. True, Bill bought DOS, but his Altair BASIC
he
>wrote himself.
>
>  
>
You could be right.  I know he bought DOS at the same time Jobs and 
Woziak bought the mouse and GUI from Xerox.  All I can go by is what my 
friend told me and he was a hell of a TW, so either he wrote that book 
or something similar.  It was nearly 30 years ago anyway and we've 
written so many manuals and other things since then.

However, according to Wikipedia, a source that we all know is better 
than Britannica ...yeah sure...."The original BASIC language was 
invented in 1963 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963> by John Kemeny 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_George_Kemeny> and Thomas Kurtz 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eugene_Kurtz> and implemented by a 
team of Dartmouth students under their direction. In the following 
years, as other dialects of BASIC appeared, Kemeny and Kurtz' original 
BASIC dialect became known as Dartmouth BASIC 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_BASIC>."  So BIll probably wrote

Altair BASIC, but knowing Bill it was based on something else.  This is 
okay because every advance in anything is based o something that came 
before it.

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