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Ah Bill Gates, the epitome of good software
by neocron 6mo ago
Ah Bill Gates, the epitome of good software
- dotancohen 6mo agoYes, actually. Gates wrote great software. Microsoft is another story.
- jll29 6mo agoAnd Paul Allen wrote a whole Altair emulator so that they could use an (academic) Harvard computer for their little (commercial) project and test/run Bill Gates' BASIC interpreter on it.
- andsoitis 6mo ago> Ah Bill Gates, the epitome of good software While developing Altair BASIC, his choice of data structures and algorithms enabled him to fit the code into just 4 kilobytes.