Ah Bill Gates, the epitome of good software

andsoitis 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> 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.

	▲	jll29 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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.