12 Jan
2012
12 Jan
'12
8:38 p.m.
Wikipedia says $25,000 not $250,000. I expect Tramiel sensed that the young
Microsoft needed the money more than Bill Gates was letting on.
On Jan 12 2012, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Richard Atkinson
<rga24 at cantab.net> wrote:
It's practically BASIC 1.0, which is the
version Jack Tramiel licensed
from Bill Gates in 1977 for a flat fee of $250,000 to use on as many
units as he liked.
I did not recall the precise amount, but those sound like the terms I
remember.
The only two keywords added in BASIC 2.0 as far
as I know are the pi
symbol and the GO keyword, and I have no idea what GO does, if indeed
anything at all.
It allows GO TO vs GOTO (TO is already a tokenized keyword for FOR
statements)
-ethan