From Jan. 30: Paul Allen and Bill Gates didn't write BASIC, but Altair BASIC, a programming language.
In the memoir, Allen claims Bill Gates tried to screw him out of shares in Microsoft when the firm was in its infancy.
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Those gifts came from Bill Allen, the head of a major oil services company.
The oilman at the center of the corruption scandal, Bill Allen, had agreed to testify against Stevens.
Morris described a close friendship between Stevens and a man named Bill Allen.
Evidently, he felt underpaid, and Bill Allen had been there to help out.
Allen's bill would knock out all grandfathered taxes after three years, while the House-passed bill would end them right away.
Stevens testified that many of Bill Allen's efforts only made her mad.
He denied, for example, that the large generator installed at the Stevens home in Alaska by oil industry executive Bill Allen was a gift.
Question: Your testimony is that because Bill Allen put in a much nicer generator than you requested, you don't have to pay for it?
Federal investigators have charged Stevens with failing to disclose how much help he received in enlarging his home from VECO, a local oil services company, and its chief executive, Bill Allen.
The prosecution's star witness, one-time oil industry executive Bill Allen, has testified that he sent people on his payroll to work on the Stevens renovation, and that he absorbed tens of thousands of dollars in labor and material cost.
At the start of this campaign, George Allen and Rick Santorum and Bill Frist were potential candidates.
In this way, they are lot like Bill Gates and Paul Allen 37 years ago.
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CNN's Richard Allen Greene, Nic Robertson and Bill Schneider contributed to this report.
Next she flashed a photo of Microsoft's founding team--Bill Gates, Paul Allen and another nine of the geekiest dorks you've ever seen.
One of the items they took this way was a component critical for making their Altair systems work: the BASIC computer language, written by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
Next she flashed a photo of Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people )'s founding team--Bill Gates, Paul Allen and another nine of the geekiest dorks you've ever seen.
In the 1970s Bill Gates and Paul Allen lived there and hatched their software company, but Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) departed for Seattle in 1978.
"We ended up with a high concentration of millionaires and multimillionaires, and they predominantly located on the east side of Seattle, " says Mr. Deely, citing tech titans like Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
Since leaving Microfost in 1983 Paul Allen has pretty much stayed out of cofounder Bill Gates' way.
Cavaliere predicts a vote some time before Congress' Easter recess in April, but it's unclear if Allen has the votes to pass his version of the bill.
Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard and talked friend Paul Allen into joining him in Albuquerque, New Mexico to start Micro-Soft.
Eventually, though, Graham executive director LaRue Allen will have to devise a way for the company to foot the bill for replacements.
Allen has been selling off shares of the software maker he started with Bill Gates and investing in a more diversified basket of media, energy and tech stocks.
In the summer of 1975 a Harvard junior, Bill Gates, drove to Albuquerque and with his friend Paul Allen started a company, Micro-Soft, to write an operating system called BASIC for the Altair 8800.
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