GW-Basic

[Dwight K. Elvey]

>From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com>
>
>On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, John Foust wrote:
>
>> >> The GW-BASIC name stands for Gee-Whiz BASIC.
>> >So, which is it?
>>
>> As he said, we have to ask Bill Gates.
>
>I'll just stick with "Gee Whiz" since no one's ever heard of "Greg
>Whitten" ;)
>
>> Dr. Whitten also added in a follow-up:
>>
>> "I also know something about Intecolor 8001 and Compucolor II machines
>> because I was Director of Software for ISC from 1978-1979.  I bought an
>> ISC 8001 in Jan 77 and worked for them as a consultant in 77 and 78."
>
>Cool, I've got both.  Maybe he can help me get them working when he's not
>busy having lunch with Bill G.
>
>-- 
>
>Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival

 The only think I thought, as I read his point of view, was
that since he was so great at coding and projects at uSoft,
why has the product been so shitty for the years he was there
and finally looks like it has begin to stablize once he was gone?
Dwight