Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 19:50, Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: You're right, but it contains the broad strokes of the story, more or less accurately, AFAICT. This is a damned sight more than most pro/am techies know these days. I used to be an active user of Quora, the online crowd-sourced version of XKCD 386, until they banned me for having a false name. ("Liam Proven" -- FAKE!) Many questions are FAQs, asked over and over and _over_ again, _ad nauseam_, by people who can't spell, or who were too lazy to search. Common ones are: ? How much of MS-DOS did Bill Gates write? (I'd answer: none) ? How much of Windows did Bill Gates write? (none) ? Why did MS save Apple? (It didn't, they were punitive damages for stealing Quicktime code) And so on. People have _no_ clue, this is all pre-web and therefore ancient unknown history, the stuff of legend. -- Liam Proven ? Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lproven at gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven ? Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 ? ?R (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053