Something I forgot about Microsoft....

[scuzzo84]

I will double check this when i get home:


From talking to keranu, he told me about how Hudson started....and then based off that I was gonna tell him this huge reply but he signed off aim grrr, anyway here goes....

From reading on Hudsons website they wrote a software for the Altair. Now the Altair at first was just a blinking box, as Bill Gates supposedly said, so he brought them BASIC to make it more functional, and now the Altair was able to do stuff. Years later Microsoft is doing work for Apple....and behind their backs Microsoft is making Windows and the first people to get it is a japanese company named....dun dun dun NEC.

Most info is from Pirates Of Silicon Valley, most of was true some tid bits were false as The Woz said so.

brb

[Keranu]

Hehe, I love that movie even though there are incorrect facts in it. I didn't know Hudson Soft wrote software for the Altair, thanks for the information. And yes, NEC was one of the first (if not the) to obtain Windows for their PC-88 computer and if you watch the movie (maybe they mention it in the book as well) you will see a box in the background when they are talking about Japanese computers getting a hold on Windows and the box clearly says "NEC" on it and maybe even "PC-88". Well you can easily assume it was for PC-88 anyways.

[esteban]

The relationship between NEC and MS goes back further: The PC-98 (possibly the PC-88 as well) ran their own proprietary version of MS-DOS !