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That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started ...
Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...
Today, Microsoft open-sourced the 6502 BASIC interpreter, the Commodore-specific port of Gates and Allen's first-ever ...
Fortunately, there are people around the world who work hard at preserving these older systems and give us a living, working ...
Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor - Version 1.1 source code is now available on Github, under the MIT license.
Microsoft has open-sourced the 6502 BASIC programming language interpreter from 1976. Its source code is now available on ...
Microsoft announced that it has open sourced the source code for 6502 BASIC, one of first ports of its original 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 ...
These articles originally appeared as a weekly serial in the OVN | VCSUN from July 8 — Aug. 14. Here, all seven parts are ...