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<blockquote data-quote="meltbanana314" data-source="post: 77350"><p>Did they write FORTRAN, COBOL, and BASIC compilers <strong>specifically</strong> for the Altair? Yes. </p><p></p><p>Did they <strong>invent</strong> the languages themselves? Heck no.</p><p></p><p>FORTRAN and COBOL came around in the late 50s, and BASIC in the mid-60s. Way before Microsoft's time.</p><p></p><p>I may not know much about those programming languages, but at least I know that Microsoft didn't have a hand in <em>inventing</em> them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="meltbanana314, post: 77350"] Did they write FORTRAN, COBOL, and BASIC compilers [B]specifically[/B] for the Altair? Yes. Did they [B]invent[/B] the languages themselves? Heck no. FORTRAN and COBOL came around in the late 50s, and BASIC in the mid-60s. Way before Microsoft's time. I may not know much about those programming languages, but at least I know that Microsoft didn't have a hand in [I]inventing[/I] them. [/QUOTE]
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