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rbanffy
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Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Hits Out at Gates
IIRC, Paul Allen wrote most of Microsoft's original BASIC interpreter... And the emulator they used to develop it.
c2
on March 30, 2011
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According to Wikipedia, you recall wrong. Gates wrote the interpreter and Allen wrote the emulator:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft#History
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The _Vanity Fair_ excerpts have Allen writing the emulator, all the other development tools, the loader, and then he wrote 25% of the interpreter itself:
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/05/paul-all...
rbanffy
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Thanks for the correction. I really had the impression Allen had more to do with the BASIC interpreter...
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