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

15 Jun 1998

...
  Absolutely. 
Applesoft BASIC (in every II+ and later, and installed as
an option in most II's) was written by Microsoft.  Microsoft also sold
several well-known Apple II games (ADVENTURE is the most well-known). 
They wrote that?  DUDE!!!!  (I recently aquired a Applesoft BASIC manual
(C) 1979, in near mint condition.) 
They didn't write the original... that was Crowther and Woods (if memory
serves).  They may have written *a* version... but history doesn't start
with PCs and MicroSoft.

					Megan Gentry
					Former RT-11 Developer

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