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Subject: Re: Microsoft Adventure 1.00
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 15:54:42 GMT
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In <3mpaso$9vf@alecto.algonet.se>, martin@skom.se (Martin Rundkvist) writes:
>  Interesting to note the blurred line between IBM and Microsoft in those 
>days. What does "Produced by Microsoft" mean? I wonder what Gordon Letwin 
>does now, and what happened to Softwin Associates. The company name could 
>be worth money in these windowed times.

The last I heard, Gordon Letwin was still working for Microsoft.  ("Softwin 
Associates", as far as I know, never did anything but the Adventure port.)  He
was one of the first people to recognize that Microsoft would succeed big by 
use of the Big Lie, after (and remember, this was back in the 70's) the 
company he was working for killed his BASIC compiler in favor of Microsoft's 
vastly inferior interpreter, solely on the strength of Bill Gates' ability to 
impress executives and other semihuman life forms.  He quit, and hitched his 
wagon to Microsoft.  He wrote their BASIC compiler, and was the lead architect
of OS/2 1.0, but is now content merely to parrot his master's lies on that
subject.  A sad waste of a talented individual.

