Tuesday, June 18, 2002
From http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/TwoStories.html
This seemed to piss off a guy named Greg Whitten who headed up the App Architecture group. Now, Greg was something like Microsoft employee number 6. He had been around forever; nobody could quite point to anything he had done but apparently he had lunch with Bill Gates a lot and GW-BASIC was named after him.So that, people, is what the GW in GW-BASIC means. And I thought it stood for Gee-Whiz.