Altair BASIC Source Code - CP/M
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> Guy Macon wrote:
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> 2) Answer (for others): None. Bill Gates never wrote Altair BASIC.
> According to the listing (whose photocopy was published in a
> Microsoft Press ...
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Re: Altair BASIC Source Code
"Mr Emmanuel Roche, France" wrote in message
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> Guy Macon wrote:
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> 2) Answer (for others): None. Bill Gates never wrote Altair BASIC.
> According to the listing (whose photocopy was published in a
> Microsoft Press Book), Paul Allen wrote all the BASIC interpreter
> while Bill Gates was a student at Harvard (Paul Allen was a
> professional programmer, him). After MITS swallowed the hook,
> they both went to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Bill Gates
> wrote the I/O subroutines. A good third of the program was the
> Floating-Point math package, written by Monte Davidoff.
Please post a link to this "Microsoft Press Book".
thanks,
-J
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Re: Altair BASIC Source Code
Hello, John!
> Please post a link to this "Microsoft Press Book".
What! You don't have it in your library?
- "Programmers at Work"
Susan Lammers
Microsoft Press, 1986
(About $1 in second-hand bookshops.)
(The interview of Gary Kildall is awful.)
(If you like the photocopy of the listing, I can tell you where it
is...)
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Emmanuel Roche, France