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Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 14:55 David Rosenthal And in this memo, he points to a new piece of software coming out of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois that is spreading like wildfire and appears to be written by some, like, kid programmer…
- ▶ 25:18 Ben Gilbert The thing owned by the university and the NCSA before.
- ▶ 33:17 Ben Gilbert So, anyway, how does NCSA, Mosaic, and Spyglass come into this?
- ▶ 33:26 Ben Gilbert They were trying to create the Spyglass browser that was sort of based on this NCSA code base, but it wasn't very good.
- ▶ 33:39 Ben Gilbert They could not license the original NCSA version.