17 Jun
2006
17 Jun
'06
3:20 p.m.
On Saturday 17 June 2006 04:25 pm, Philip Tellis wrote:
Sometime Today, j cobbled together some glyphs to say:
There was one other (cant remeber his name or the web links) who did all the coding for the first product MS Basic written in assembly.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote the code for Altair Basic for the MITS Altair 8800. Monte Davidoff wrote the floating point arithmetic routines. Allen and Gates competed with writing a boot loader. The final code ran in 4KB of memory.
That's how good these guys were.
Yep. With kludges that jumped to the middle of a mutibyte instructions. Heshould start his coders coding in 4KB again - things might actually improve .
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Rgds
JTD