Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 08:45:05 08/21/01
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On August 21, 2001 at 11:40:29, Christopher R. Dorr wrote: >Just looked it up in my copy of 'Best of Byte Magazine'. According to Gates >himself, it stands for 'Gee Whiz Basic' (Best of Byte, p. 197). I read in usenet >that it was later 'solemnized' as 'Graphics Workstation Basic' (The poster cited >an old IBM Manual) similar to the way that 'ping' was legitimized as 'Packet >INternet Groper' to make it sound more acceptable to the corporate types. > Officially, it was indeed Gee Whiz. But people at Microsoft "knew" that it was also Gates William. Like a pun, it had TWO meanings -- the official one and the one that was the real motivation for the name.
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