Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 10:54:38 -0400 From: Shannon Hendrix <shannon@widomaker.com> To: FreeBSD Advocacy <advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning? Message-ID: <20010702105437.A17119@widomaker.com> In-Reply-To: <3B3F9F23.FF02A317@softweyr.com> References: <20010630235936.A90173@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010701060843.017bfee8@threespace.com> <3B3F9F23.FF02A317@softweyr.com>
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On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 04:07:31PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > BASIC for the PC came LONG after the original BASIC-80, which ran on > bare machines, CPM, and TRS-DOS. Microsoft later supplied BASIC > interpreters for other CPUs, including the 6502 on the Apple ][ and > later Commodore machines and the 6809 on the Radio Shack Color > Computer. I think they wrote the cartridge basic for the TI-99 also, > but I'm not certain of that. They also produced a BASIC for the Atari, but it never caught on. > To do so would have made no sense, since Microsoft didn't yet have a > platform to lock people onto. Life was more complicated, and yet so > much better, in those days. What is amazing about that time period is just how much code was often ported from one very different platform to another. At times it was one far superior platform to another even, or totally different architectures. And yet today, we hear people talking about how impossible that is, despite the task being much easier. One thing though, that was definitely not so much better, was only being able to use UNIX or VMS over a 300bps telephone line, on my 40-column vt52 emulator. I don't miss that part. -- UNIX/Perl/C/Pizza__________________________________shannon@widomaker.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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