On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...

Microsoft has open-sourced the version of BASIC it created in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor used in many early microcomputers. As the software colossus explained in a Wednesday post, Microsoft ...

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On April 4, 1975, two college dropouts—Bill Gates and Paul Allen—set out to write software for a microcomputer that didn’t even exist yet. Today, as Microsoft turns 50, Gates is once again looking at ...

Have I told you the story about Bill Gates and me in those early days of personal computing? To be clear: Bill Gates is older than I am. In 1975, as Bill was leaving Harvard to start Microsoft, I had ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has shared the 1975 source code for Altair BASIC. The code was the foundation on which Microsoft was built. Before Windows and before Office, there was a carefully ...

In a nutshell: Microsoft, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in April 1975, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month. To mark the occasion, Gates has released the source code he and Allen ...

So BASIC: Bill Gates Releases Microsoft's Original Source Code In the 1970s, Gates and his Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, used a computer in Harvard's lab to compose what he calls the 'coolest code ...

In a nostalgic nod to Microsoft’s origins, co-founder Bill Gates has released the source code for Altair BASIC, the software that marked the beginning of the tech giant’s journey. This release ...

Back in 2017 – long before ChatGPT became a household name and artificial intelligence started raising existential questions – Bill Gates floated a bold idea: tax the robots. The Microsoft cofounder ...