Author: William H Rogers
Date: 10:41:50 08/20/01
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On August 19, 2001 at 20:42:19, Pete Galati wrote: >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 Sorry fellows, but you are both wrong. GW stood for Graphics/Windows Basic as both could be implemented in that limited version of basic. Bill
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