12 Apr
2005
12 Apr
'05
7:07 p.m.
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Classic Computers wrote:
GW stands for Gordon Whitten, a Microsoft employee.
If you Google gw-basic, you'll find a couple of places
that say Greg Whitten, but it's Gordon.
There have apparently been both a Gordon Whitten AND a Greg Whitten at
Microsoft at various times. Neither is in the 1978 photo that shows the
original 11 people of Micro-Soft.
If you do, indeed, Google "gw-basic" or "gw-basic whitten", then you
will
find dozens of places that say "GREG Whitten" as the namesake of GW-BASIC,
and Google does not index ANY sites that say that "Gordon Whitten" was the
namesake.
Is there a more reliable source for your assertion than Google?