Microsoft Hatred FAQ

[Tim Slattery]

"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb at oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote:

>No - they got the deal with IBM when they were a garage startup. 

Not quite a garage startup. They had initial success in Albuquerque,
NM, writing a Basic interpreter for the MITS Altair machine. By the
time IBM came to them, they had moved to Seattle and were having more
success writing compilers for several languages for microcomputers. So
no longer a garage startup, but still very small, and definitely not a
monopoly.

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Tim Slattery
Slattery_T at bls.gov