Old Microsoft stuff... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

15 Jun 1998

I guess you're right.  But still... er... um...
    Tim D. Hotze
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Shoppa &lt;shoppa(a)alph02.triumf.ca&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: Old Microsoft stuff...

...
 > Yep.  I know that.  But MS dominance didn't
exactly happen overnight. They
...
   didn't
have much of a hold in anything until the IBM PC took off... 
I'd disagree with you here.  Microsoft had a much broader scope before
the IBM PC, selling hundreds of pieces of software for dozens of
different platforms.  And certainly a plurality, if not a majority, of 8-bit
...
 home micros booted straight into Microsoft BASIC.  Just
about every
consumer-oriented-everything-in-a-box CP/M system came bundled with
MBASIC!

Tim. 