17 Jun
2006
17 Jun
'06
3:32 p.m.
On Sunday 18 June 2006 01:06 am, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
I dont agree with any of you guys. But I guess M$ is responsible in a big way for stifling innovation. I think all the problems started with this:
$40000 of comp time HA HA he was using the Harvard machines gratis. And the code of fellow students according to some- including stuff from the waste paper particularly stuff that made the PDP10 execute"arbitary" instructions. Bill modified this to execute 8080 instructions. Which made theMSBasic possible. But as long as he owns the code he can charge anything he pleases. He cant make his code do things to MY pc tho.
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