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Microsoft just made its own code from the 70s open source, and you can download it right now

Microsoft just open-sourced 6502 BASIC (BASIC M6502 8K VER 1.1) from 1978. The code powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, and C64, and underlies Applesoft BASIC on Apple II. Download it on GitHub to run, ...
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Microsoft’s Historic 6502 BASIC Code is Now Open Source

Microsoft’s Historic 6502 BASIC Code is Now Open Source Your email has been sent Microsoft has officially released the code for its 6502 BASIC version under an open ...
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Microsoft open-sources the source code for Bill Gates' 48-year-old '6502 BASIC'

Microsoft released the source code for ' Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor - Version 1.1 ' as open source on September 3, 2025. While the 6502 BASIC source code had previously been distributed ...
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Bill Gates shares his original Altair BASIC source code for Microsoft's 50th anniversary — "The coolest code I've ever written"

This week, Microsoft is celebrating its 50th anniversary (officially, it'll be on April 4). We've had a lot of fun at Windows Central recapping some of the best and worst moments alongside missed ...
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AI system devises first optimizations to sorting code in over a decade

Anyone who has taken a basic computer science class has undoubtedly spent time devising a sorting algorithm—code that will take an unordered list of items and put them in ascending or descending order ...