Linux is KING - Couldn't be hacked - Mac, Vista went down in flames

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Les wrote:
> Actually, Microsoft was a late comer to personal computers.  I own
> (still) an Altair 8800B, and owned a
> Morrow Microdecision before that, both on CP/M.  And prior to that I had
> systems that ran various other OS's 
> that were a bit more limited, and one straight bootstrap system for
> which you had to furnish an OS of your favorite
> flavor.  Microsoft did not create, or really enable personal computers,
> they just got the contract to write the OS for IBM, and were able to
> bootstrap that into the corporation you see today.
> 
Microsoft's entry into the personal computer market was by supplying 
a version of BASIC that for several operating systems. I can 
remember loading it from tape, and later burning it to EPROM with a 
small relocation program to move it into RAM at the address it 
expected to run. (It was not relocatable...)

Mikkel
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   Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

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