Editing GW-BASIC (section)

== Name ==
There are several theories on what the initials "GW" represent. [[Greg Whitten]], an early [[Microsoft]] employee who developed the standards in the company's BASIC compiler line, says that [[Bill Gates]] picked the name GW-BASIC. Whitten refers to it as ''Gee-Whiz'' BASIC and is unsure whether Gates named the program after him.<ref name="Whitten">{{cite web|url=http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2005-April/042999.html|title=GW-BASIC|date=2005-04-13|access-date=2008-06-29|author=Gregory Whitten|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920032110/http://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2005-April/042999.html|archive-date=2008-09-20}}</ref> The ''Microsoft User Manual'' from [[Microsoft Press]] also refers to it by the ''Gee-Whiz'' BASIC name.{{Citation needed|date=June 2008}} It may have also been [[nickname]]d ''Gee-Whiz'' because of its numerous [[2D computer graphics|graphics]] commands.<ref name="Whitten"/> Other common theories as to the initials' origins include "Graphics and Windows", "[[Bill Gates|Gates, William]]" (Microsoft's president at the time), or "Gates–Whitten" (the two main designers of the program).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/g.html|title=Linux Dictionary:G|access-date=2008-06-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2005-April/042967.html |title=GW-BASIC |date=2005-04-13 |access-date=2008-06-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080629053601/http://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2005-April/042967.html |archive-date=2008-06-29 }}</ref>