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

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...

Nearly half a century after Bill Gates first began writing software that would launch Microsoft, the company has made that ...

Research conducted by the Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge could contribute to the development of AI accelerators.

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

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

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

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

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 has officially open-sourced its 6502 BASIC. The version published today is BASIC M6502 8K Version 1.1.

Microsoft announced that it has open sourced the source code for 6502 BASIC, one of first ports of its original BASIC.

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