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

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Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central ...

Nearly half a century after Bill Gates first began writing software that would launch Microsoft, the company has made that ...

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

The code Microsoft has released is version 1.1, which apparently contains fixes to the garbage collector identified by ...

Microsoft has open-sourced the 6502 BASIC programming language interpreter from 1976. Its source code is now available on ...

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Microsoft announced that it has open sourced the source code for 6502 BASIC, one of first ports of its original BASIC.

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