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Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...
In 1977, Commodore licensed BASIC for $25,000 as a one-time payment, securing perpetual use without royalties.
"Rick Weiland and I (Bill Gates) wrote the 6502 BASIC," Gates commented on the Page Table blog in 2010. "I put the WAIT ...
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 ...
Microsoft publishes the original 6502 BASIC source code from 1976 for the first time as open source – a milestone in the ...