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Microsoft Goes Back to BASIC, Open-Sources Bill Gates’ Code

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

Bill Gates’ early BASIC code for MOS 6502 released as open source

Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central ...
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Bill Gates’ 48-year-old Microsoft 6502 BASIC goes open source

Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor - Version 1.1 source code is now available on Github, under the MIT license.

Microsoft open sources 6502 BASIC after almost 50 years0 0

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

MS-BASIC 1.1 introduced programming to a generation - now you can download it for free

That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started releasing some of its classic operating systems and programs as open ...

Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

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

Claude Code Starter Template & Beginners Guide to Building Apps

Learn how to create apps easily using Claude Code. This beginner-friendly guide shows you how to build a to-do list app fast.