... Well it is true so I see no reason why you should be apologising. ... I doubt that'll happen. He should be remembered as the person who used IBM's...
You forgot one. The first Microsoft product, MS Basic, was stolen from the college he went to. Jim Daldry __________________________________________________ Do...
... Actually I forgot a lot more than one. http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/innovation.shtml ... From what I hear BASIC was Public Domain but he did set...
Even on Innovations not all are mentioned. One of the most popular cases where Microsoft's software engineers stole routines from the Stacker disk compression...
... That's not true; they didn't steal BASIC. According to what I've read, Gates and Allen developed a BASIC interpreter for the MITS Altair microcomputer...
... I've just been through the exercise - KDE and Gnome (particularly Nautilus) are way too heavy for 32MB of RAM (or even 64MB). Curiously enough, I had...
... Yes, I believe it was because of that Basic that IBM contacted them. IBM also asked if they happened to know if anyone had an operating system, at which...
... Despite its usage of Qt (which is what KDE is also based on), Opera is generally lighter than Firefox - in spite of Opera including a full-fledged mail...
... Actually the first response was 'yeah, there's this outfit called SCO down in California that produces an OS called CP/M.' SCO was unable to keep up with...
... Kinda ironical considering SCO's latest saga with IBM and operating systems <g> (The current incarnation of SCO, that is, which may have very little ...
... WRONG. SCO never made CP/M it was Digital Research that made it. SCO were contracted by M$ about this time to create Xenix, a version of Unix for the PC...
Hello, I just started useing XBASIC last Night. I thought I would look for something more productive than languages like C++, or Delphi. I'm still reading the...
dantasse wrote: <Snipola> ... Yes, finding work has been a pain. As for Bill Gates and all that, I think they'd find a lot more customer loyalty and...
... AFAIK, only ... source (from ... Vincent and ... me. I ... told anyone ... of us ... to work ... workings of ... Hi: Will the official upgrade to xBasic...
Hello, I'm just curious; How would I go about making a 800x600 Window that goes over the Desktop Taskbar, and remains constant? I'm making a Game, and didn't...
For some reason i cant make exes that work properly, when i run the exe nmake made it pulls up an error that says can find xb.dll so i put it in the same...
On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:12:59 -0400, alienkid09 <lzdude69@...> ... Common error. The "xb.dll" that it is looking for is xbrun.dll (the runtime). Copy it...
... <Snipola> Take a look at the demo file agraphic.x that comes with the XB package. I found it to be a good start for graphics when I was first learning XB. ...
... If you use the XB.DLL that is in the xb\bin folder, you make your executable load up the PDE environment. There is another dll in the same xb\bin folder...
I am programming in Qbasic. I want to access 3 serial comm ports but have found that Qbasic is limited to only com1 & com2. I found some work arounds on the...
I have no idea if it would really work to approach more comports than two, i recon if the API allows it you may be able to reach something. The following code...
Owh, one more thing, I had problems setting the initial baudrate of the comport, i had to use another application to get this done in order to make below code...
I'm assuming you're using the XgrCreateWindow function to create your window. Use $$WindowTypeTopMost as a window type argument when you make that function...
... the ... i put ... them in ... any ... gui ... (the ... the ... Thank you, but do i have to copy nmake and all those libraries to my directory too? Thank...
... the ... i put ... them in ... any ... gui ... executable load up the PDE environment. ... that you need to copy the xbrun.dll to the folder where your ... ...
... so ... removing ... to my ... i goto the directory my source is in, i type "nmake -f prog.mak" then it says "nmake is not an internal or external command"...
