[Coco] OT: Sooner or latter, MS is going to come after us, at least if we still use their BASIC....

[Mike Pepe]

Ah Ward, we so love you here at Microsoft :)

I've been meaning to ask the "flint-chippers" in Legal & Corporate
Affairs what their take on the 8-bit BASIC code is. BillG did mention
(promise?) a book that would explain how the BASIC ROM worked, but we
never got that officially, although the Unraveled series is probably
just as good or better.

I really don't think anyone there will care much. I don't see any LCA
folks in the retro-computing groups in the company I'm in. Yes we have
those. Me next start group about wheels, Me hear they have potential.
Maybe fire next. Fire scary.


:)


-Mike


> -----Original Message-----

> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-

> bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of wdg3rd at comcast.net

> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 7:59 AM

> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts

> Subject: Re: [Coco] OT: Sooner or latter, MS is going to come after

> us,at least if we still use their BASIC....

> 

> I think I can find some prior usage of the concept.  Just about every

> incarnation of the vi editor comes to mind and several versions were

> "mouse enabled" before 'doze 1.0 or for that matter QDOS.

> 

> It's important to remember that only one department at Microsoft keeps

> at the leading edge of their technology, and that's their legal

> department.  Since the legal department is still chipping flint, they

> don't know much about what's going on in the world that even retro-

> techies live in.  (They're still working to get that patent on

anything

> round that rolls -- the "wheel" is just a trivial implementation).

> --

> Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

> 

> "What I know [about the art of the sword] boils down to this:  If you

> see a guy running at you with a sword, put two rounds in his chest to

> slow him down, then one into his brain to finish him off".  Aaron

> Allston, _Sidhe Devil_

> 

>  -------------- Original message ----------------------

> From: Diego Barizo <diegoba at adinet.com.uy>

> > A patent on what ?!?!?!

> > http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-218626.html

> >

> > Diego

> 

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