Author: Christopher R. Dorr
Date: 06:10:01 08/21/01
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On August 20, 2001 at 13:41:50, William H Rogers wrote: >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 Really? That's very surprising. I didn't know that too many people outside of PARC had much of an idea about the concept of 'windows' in 1981, when GW-BASIC came out. I don't recall being able to do windows in GW-Basic, other than some real rough kludging writing and rewriting screen areas. COuld be tho...haven't seen it in over a decade :) Did write my first (and only) chess program in it's decendent, Q-basic :) Chris
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