[Coco] Old Coco Info

tim lindner tlindner at ix.netcom.com
Thu Aug 5 23:23:50 EDT 2004


<KnudsenMJ at aol.com> wrote:

> FWIW, much as I love Motorola, I think Microsoft was the better contractor
> to write a BASIC.  OTOH, neither would I want a car radio or walkie-talkie
> built by Microsoft :-)

But if Motorola had won the contract wouldn't we have had Basic09 in
ROM? I beleive Basic09 started either as a project in Motorola, or a
co-project with Microware.

Isn't Basic09 generally regarded higher than Microsoft's BASIC?

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tim lindner
tlindner at ix.netcom.com



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