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Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 22:45 David Rosenthal Back at Lakeside, they were just using BASIC, the programming language.
- ▶ 23:13 Ben Gilbert So there's a meaningful amount of translation done by a basic interpreter that takes you from the basic code you have to write to what is actually running on the machine.
- ▶ 23:23 David Rosenthal But basic, we don't want to give the impression that it is just basic or just for kids.
- ▶ 23:52 Ben Gilbert It's a reasonable parallel to draw it way back when with BASIC, where you say, look, you can understand it as a layman, but also it's used in a broad set of business applications.
- ▶ 29:39 David Rosenthal Why don't I go off and write an interpreter for basic here, and we can sell the basic interpreter for the microprocessor and build a big business.
- ▶ 43:16 Ben Gilbert You know, it's quite valuable to then make the claim you can program basic on our computer.
- ▶ 46:59 Ben Gilbert So everyone else who said they were writing a basic never got far enough
- ▶ 59:48 Ben Gilbert So you've got source code that looks kind of like English, you know, basic it's letters and numbers.
- ▶ 1:34:58 David Rosenthal So that's why the basic, the interpreter is so important.
- ▶ 1:37:11 Ben Gilbert We're going to need a basic.
- ▶ 1:37:53 David Rosenthal Basic programs that Microsoft was going to interpret and then run.