← Back to context Comment by neocron 14 hours ago Ah Bill Gates, the epitome of good software 3 comments neocron Reply andsoitis 14 hours ago > Ah Bill Gates, the epitome of good softwareWhile developing Altair BASIC, his choice of data structures and algorithms enabled him to fit the code into just 4 kilobytes. dotancohen 14 hours ago Yes, actually. Gates wrote great software.Microsoft is another story. jll29 13 hours ago 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.
andsoitis 14 hours ago > Ah Bill Gates, the epitome of good softwareWhile developing Altair BASIC, his choice of data structures and algorithms enabled him to fit the code into just 4 kilobytes.
dotancohen 14 hours ago Yes, actually. Gates wrote great software.Microsoft is another story. jll29 13 hours ago 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.
jll29 13 hours ago 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.
> Ah Bill Gates, the epitome of good software
While 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.
Microsoft 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.