That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started releasing some of its classic operating systems and programs as open ...

A few months after releasing the Altair BASIC source code, Microsoft has shared another cornerstone of its early software success. The company announced that 6502 BASIC ...

"Rick Weiland and I (Bill Gates) wrote the 6502 BASIC," Gates commented on the Page Table blog in 2010. "I put the WAIT ...

Microsoft called the code—written by the company’s founder, Bill Gates, and its second-ever employee, Ric Weiland—”one of the ...

Today, Microsoft open-sourced the 6502 BASIC interpreter, the Commodore-specific port of Gates and Allen's first-ever ...

In 1977, Commodore licensed BASIC for $25,000 as a one-time payment, securing perpetual use without royalties.

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Amanda Chua does it all. She has the brain of a mathematician with the soul of an artist. From excelling at math and science to writing poetry and creating music and artwork, Chua is showing us that ...

Building a computer on a breadboard is a seminal project for many builders, but it can become complicated quite quickly, not ...

Wenley Jean Pierre, a native of Haiti, is one of 29 adult learners who recieved a $1,500 scholarship from First Literacy of ...

At a time when stories of layoffs linked to AI are becoming common, OpenAI’s Codex product lead Alexander Embiricos has advised students not to shy away from studying computer science. Instead, he ...

How do you program a computer that doesn’t exist yet? In a new project, researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ...