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Commodore 64's Legacy Continues As Microsoft Open Sources 6502 BASIC

Today, Microsoft open-sourced the 6502 BASIC interpreter, the Commodore-specific port of Gates and Allen's first-ever ...

Microsoft has blown the dust off the source code for a version of Bill Gates' first-ever operating system

Specifically, it's a port of BASIC, the OS that founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed for use on the Intel 8080-powered Altair 8800. As explained in a Microsoft blog, the v ...