[ale] [WAY OT]Reverse Engineering MS Visual Basic Applications

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Brian J. Dowd wrote:
> I think that writing the first "4K Basic interpreter" which ran on the 
> Intel 8086 chip back in 1975 (Altair microcomputer
> loaded via paper tape from an ASR-33 Teletype) qualifies as being both 
> visionary and "very creative".
> Don't get personal with your antipathy for Bill Gates ... just keep 
> working to make Linux the world's standard OS.

Oh yeah, let's get the facts straight.  Gates didn't do it by himself. 
There as Allen and the almost always forgotten Davidoff, who, in fact, 
wrote the what most would consider to be the most difficult code (the 
math routines).

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Until later, Geoffrey	esoteric at 3times25.net

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