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Chapter 1: Foundation
In 1975, BASIC, which was a popular
mainframe computer programming
language, was used for Personal
Computers (PC). Bill Gates and Paul
G. Allen were the two people to make
this change. They knew each other
since they were young and were both
from Seattle. After a short period
of time, Gates and Allen founded
Microsoft. They came out with
this name after joining the words
microcomputer and software into
