Ah Bill Gates, the epitome of good software
reply> Ah Bill Gates, the epitome of good software
replyWhile developing Altair BASIC, his choice of data structures and algorithms enabled him to fit the code into just 4 kilobytes.
Yes, actually. Gates wrote great software.
replyMicrosoft is another story.
And Paul Allen wrote a whole Altair emulator so that they could use an (academic) Harvard computer for their little (commercial) project and test/run Bill Gates' BASIC interpreter on it.
replyI'd like to see Gates or anyone else do that for a project that lasts (at least) a quarter century and sees a many-fold increase in CPU speed, RAM availability, disk capacity etc.
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