News

"Rick Weiland and I (Bill Gates) wrote the 6502 BASIC," Gates commented on the Page Table blog in 2010. "I put the WAIT ...
Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central ...
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 ...
That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started ...
Today, Microsoft open-sourced the 6502 BASIC interpreter, the Commodore-specific port of Gates and Allen's first-ever ...
C is the most perfect language and it will run on anything. It will even run on a computer without a CPU. The computer in question here is the Gigatron, a fully-functional ‘home computer’ the ...
The code Microsoft has released is version 1.1, which apparently contains fixes to the garbage collector identified by ...