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To: Kashish King who wrote (46373)	6/10/2000 1:09:00 AM
From: foobert	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Low level, not low caliber. His greatest personal achievement that became the seed of what is now Microsoft was the development of the first BASIC interpreter for the Altair computer. He did this at a very young age, using some kind of assembly (low level) language. I consider that to be a tremendous technical acomplishment for the time. He then was able to sucessfully market the product under his new company. This went against the "software is free" mindset of the era. This successful marketing of a new product is another great achievement. He was also smart enough to know when to buy a product for resale (DOS) rather than take the time to develop one from scratch when he saw that he may have a large customer (IBM) waiting for such a product. Some may see this as greed, I see these as smart business moves. (why didn't I do all that?)

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