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Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 43:07 Ben Gilbert The hardware is powerful, but they're not going to have a lot of customers unless there's stuff you can do on the machine and a basic interpreter running on it.
- ▶ 45:40 Ben Gilbert On paper, by hand, he is hand-coding octal, not even assembly language instructions, like he's hand-coding in pure octal the instructions to load their basic interpreter program into memory.