Hackaday

BASIC: Cross-Platform Software Hacking Then And Now

Surely BASIC is properly obsolete by now, right? Perhaps not. In addition to inspiring a large part of home computing today, BASIC is still very much alive today, even outside of retro computing.
TechRepublic

Microsoft’s Historic 6502 BASIC Code is Now Open Source

The BASIC source code was fundamental to the early era of home computing as the foundation of many of Commodore’s computers. Image: Bill Gates/YouTube Microsoft has ...
ZDNet

マイクロソフトが「GW-BASIC」のソースコードを公開--1983年はどんな ...

Microsoftは2018年にGitHubで「MS-DOS」のソースコードを再びオープンソース化したが、今度は同社が1983年にリリースした「GW-BASIC」のソースコードを公開した。 GW-BASICのルーツは、Bill Gates氏とPaul Allen氏が作ったMicrosoftの最初の製品である「Altair 8800」用のBASIC ...
gizmodo

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

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...
SD Times

Microsoft open sources GW-BASIC code

Microsoft has uploaded the code for GW-BASIC to GitHub for historical reference and educational purposes. GW-BASIC is a BASIC interpreter, written entirely in assembly language. According to Rich ...
ZDNet

「BASIC」誕生60周年--コンピューター利用を容易にしたシンプルな ...

「Python」や「JavaScript」が学ばれるようになるずっと前、米国時間1964年5月1日の夜明け前の暗闇の中で、コンピューター史におけるささやかながら非常に重要な出来事がダートマス大学で幕を開けた。数学者のJohn G. Kemeny氏とThomas E. Kurtz氏がGeneral Electricの「GE ...