Bill Gates a few weeks they developed an Altair emulator that ran on a minicomputer, and then the BASIC interpreter. The demonstration, held at MITS's offices in Albuquerque, was a success and resulted in a deal with MITS to distribute the interpreter as Altair BASIC. Paul Allen was hired into MITS, and Gates took a leave of absence from Harvard to work with Allen at MITS in Albuquerque in November 1975. They named their partnership "Micro-Soft" and had their first office located in Albuquerque. Within a year, the hyphen was dropped, and on November 26, 1976, the trade name "Microsoft" was registered
U.S. Route 90 Business (Lafayette, Louisiana) US 90 was restored, and the University Avenue route was designated as US 90 Bypass. In 1956, the bypass designation was dropped, and US 90 followed the University Avenue route once again. The current business route came into existence almost a decade later when US 90 was re-routed onto the Evangeline Thruway. U.S. Route 90 Business (Lafayette, Louisiana) U.S. Highway 90 Business (BUS US 90, officially 90-Y) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves Lafayette Parish. It spans in a northwest to southeast direction and it is signed as Business 90, with no directional shields. It is known as