BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Steven Wozniak and Steven Jobs
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Paul Allen and William Gates
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Gary Kildall and Herman Hollerith
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None of these people
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Detailed explanation-1: -Bill Gates and Paul Allen licensed their BASIC programming language interpreter to MITS as the main language for the Altair. MITS co-founder Ed Roberts invented the Altair 8800-which sold for $297, or $395 with a case-and coined the term “personal computer”.
Detailed explanation-2: -A Harvard student and his friend, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, realized Altair would be a lot better if users could program it in BASIC, a popular, easy-to-use computer language, instead of machine code. The enterprising pair called Roberts and offered to develop a BASIC interpreter for the Altair.
Detailed explanation-3: -Altair BASIC is a BASIC language developed by Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Monte Davidoff that was first introduced and announced as completed on January 2, 1975. Altair BASIC allowed people to create programs for the Altair computers.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Altair 8800 used the newly released Intel 8080 CPU and had 256 bytes of RAM. During the same year as Altair’s release, two students, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, founded Microsoft and released a BASIC compiler for the Altair 8800, giving it its first programming language.