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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
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Subject: Re: Bill Gates on Free Software
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Robert Napier wrote:
>The question I've always had about this paragraph is what computer time Gates is refering to. Is he saying that he or Microsoft paid $40k to someone, or is he trying to apply timeshare machine charges to his hobby machines, or did he use $40k worth of system time for commercial gain without paying the owner of the system?
Perhaps BASIC was developed on a timesharing system with a cross-assembler, as was common in those days (most DEC PDP-8 software was developed on DEC PDP-10s, e.g.)
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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
Organization: Lojban Peripheral
Subject: Re: Bill Gates on Free Software
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
Robert Napier wrote:
>The question I've always had about this paragraph is what computer time Gates is refering to. Is he saying that he or Microsoft paid $40k to someone, or is he trying to apply timeshare machine charges to his hobby machines, or did he use $40k worth of system time for commercial gain without paying the owner of the system?
Perhaps BASIC was developed on a timesharing system with a cross-assembler, as was common in those days (most DEC PDP-8 software was developed on DEC PDP-10s, e.g.)
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
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