Comment Re:Flash-in-the-pan syndrome (Score 1) 98
Nope.
Paul Allen and Bill Gates wrote a BASIC interpreter for ROM, and/or Paper Tape/Cassette, that people could bootstrap into their machines. CP/M came much later. And it was a watershed event at the time, when the alternative for hobbiests was to use toggle switches to write programs in machine code (not that 'sissy' Assembly Language).
Paul Allen and Bill Gates wrote a BASIC interpreter for ROM, and/or Paper Tape/Cassette, that people could bootstrap into their machines. CP/M came much later. And it was a watershed event at the time, when the alternative for hobbiests was to use toggle switches to write programs in machine code (not that 'sissy' Assembly Language).
