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Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 35:24 David Rosenthal So then, in the spring of 1974, Bill's freshman year, Electronics Magazine publishes big news about a new Intel chip, the next generation, the next turn of the crank on Moore's Law, the 8080.
- ▶ 37:03 David Rosenthal Through 1974 and 1975, and like, hey, when are the 8080 computers going to come out?
- ▶ 41:59 David Rosenthal And Bill and Paul, they get him on the phone, and they say, we have a basic interpreter ready to go, ready to ship for the AT-AT Intel chip, and we want to provide it for you for your machine.
- ▶ 44:29 David Rosenthal I'll just write an emulator on the Harvard PDP 10 for the ADD instruction set.
- ▶ 48:57 David Rosenthal The list price from Intel for the 8080 chip was 360 dollars.
- ▶ 49:16 David Rosenthal He managed to negotiate a volume deal with Intel to get eighty-eighty chips at 75 bucks a pop.
- ▶ 54:45 David Rosenthal So MITS gets exclusive license to the BASIC interpreter, to the BASIC, as they call it, for the AD-AD.
- ▶ 1:05:50 David Rosenthal I want to license Microsoft Your Basic for the AD-AD microprocessor here so that we can experiment with these things.
- ▶ 1:26:06 David Rosenthal They're running the Intel eighty-eighty processor or competitor making a similar eight-bit processor.
- ▶ 1:28:22 David Rosenthal If you look at pictures of these processors, what did the eighty-eighty, the eight-bit processor look like?
- ▶ 1:28:34 David Rosenthal In the ADO eight processor, that's only eight bits.