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Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates commemorates its 50th birthday by sharing the BASIC interpreter code that led to its creation.
Gates and his Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, used a computer in Harvard's lab to compose what he calls the 'coolest code I ...
Bill Gates is taking a look back at the code that started it all.The Microsoft cofounder this week published the code that ...
Microsoft is celebrating its 50th birthday these days, and it all started with the Altair Basic program. Bill Gates has now published its source code.
If you want to see the original source code that started ... the software we said already existed." Gates and Allen then ...
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the company in the most Bill Gates way possible.
“The coolest code I’ve ever written.” With these words, Bill Gates introduces a blog post that celebrates Microsoft’s 50th anniversary by looking back on how the company got started. At the bottom of ...
Bill and I were using the same computing tech - the Altair 8800 and DEC's PDP-10 - as BASIC became a gateway for generations ...
In a nutshell: Microsoft, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in ... Gates said Altair BASIC was the company's "original source code," predating iconic products like Windows and Office.