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

"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 ...

In 1977, Commodore licensed BASIC for $25,000 as a one-time payment, securing perpetual use without royalties.

Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

Fortunately, there are people around the world who work hard at preserving these older systems and give us a living, working ...

That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started ...

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 ...

Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Rick, and many others developed software that made computers intelligible to the common man. Bill ...

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 ...

Describing Microsoft's 50th anniversary as "bittersweet," Gates said it still feels like yesterday when he and Allen wrote the Altair BASIC code on a PDP-10 mainframe in Harvard's computer lab.

The code Microsoft has released is version 1.1, which apparently contains fixes to the garbage collector identified by ...