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Subject: Re: GW-Basic = GatesWilliam-Basic

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 17:42:19 08/19/01

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On August 19, 2001 at 14:08:32, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On August 18, 2001 at 10:20:09, James Swafford wrote:
>
>>On August 18, 2001 at 08:50:22, Pete Galati wrote:
>>
>>>On August 18, 2001 at 06:59:09, Grzegorz Sidorowicz wrote:
>>>
>>>>Can you translate it to C?
>>>>Is any translator (Basic to C) ?
>>>
>>>Are you sure it's Basic?
>>>
>>
>>
>>Oh yeah.. reminds me of good ole' GW-BASIC.
>>
>
>Where GW was Bill (William) Gates' initials in reverse! :-)

Actually, I heard that it stood for Gee Wiz Basic believe it or not.

I did manage to dig up a copy of GW-Basic, and the only time I've ever used it
was to run a GW-Basic Chess program.

Pete



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