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Microsoft called the code—written by the company’s founder, Bill Gates, and its second-ever employee, Ric Weiland—”one of the ...
Fortunately, there are people around the world who work hard at preserving these older systems and give us a living, working ...
"Rick Weiland and I (Bill Gates) wrote the 6502 BASIC," Gates commented on the Page Table blog in 2010. "I put the WAIT ...
An overriding memory for those who used 8-bit machines back in the day was of using BASIC to program them. Without a ...
Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central ...
Microsoft has open-sourced the 6502 BASIC programming language interpreter from 1976. Its source code is now available on ...
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 ...
The code Microsoft has released is version 1.1, which apparently contains fixes to the garbage collector identified by ...