Linux is KING - Couldn't be hacked - Mac, Vista went down in flames

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 06:59 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 09:31 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> > Microsoft's entry into the personal computer market was by supplying 
> > a version of BASIC that for several operating systems. 
> 
> And wasn't it awful...  I know BASIC's sneered upon, as there are plenty
> of better things, but BASIC was a simple starting position for a lot of
> people.  It was also the only system available for a lot of home
> personal computing, for a long time.  Though, it typically was a very
> feature limited interpreter.  We had it on a Data General mainframe,
> amongst other languages, and that went in the opposite direction - very
> featured, and gave you very verbose and lengthy error reports about your
> syntax errors.
> 
> Many years ago I can remember tinkering around with Microsoft's BASIC on
> the Amiga, since it was the only programming language I had to play with
> on it, at the time.  And actually managing to make a small relational
> database with it, even though it hardly has the features that you need
> for something like that.  It wasn't anything really complex though, just
> interrelated databases of services, clients, quotes, and the ability to
> turn a quote into an invoice.

cp/m had all kinda sort and list commands. I'm just not sure which would
have been better, to be under the evil domination of Digital or
Microsoft. <grins> cp/m ][ was pretty nice, though. It did pretty much
whatever I wanted it to do. Ric

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