GW-Basic

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Tue Apr 12 21:07:25 CDT 2005


On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Classic Computers wrote:
> GW stands for Gordon Whitten, a Microsoft employee.
> If you Google gw-basic, you'll find a couple of places
> that say Greg Whitten, but it's Gordon.

There have apparently been both a Gordon Whitten AND a Greg Whitten at
Microsoft at various times.  Neither is in the 1978 photo that shows the
original 11 people of Micro-Soft.

If you do, indeed, Google "gw-basic" or "gw-basic whitten", then you will
find dozens of places that say "GREG Whitten" as the namesake of GW-BASIC,
and Google does not index ANY sites that say that "Gordon Whitten" was the
namesake.

Is there a more reliable source for your assertion than Google?










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