[Coco] Extremely OT, since I'm getting political Re: OT: Sooner or latter, MS is going to come after us, at least if we still use their BASIC....

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

Read the article my friend L Neil Smith wrote about a decade back (obviously we're close friends, I got him to change brands of Irish whiskey and I'm a beer drinker and I only otherwise drink straight rye).

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle1998/libe37-19980612-08.html

Fire GOOD.
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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_

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From: "Mike Pepe" <lamune at doki-doki.net>
> 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.
> 
> :)