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Here’s the original source code for Microsoft’s very first product
The 157-page PDF available to download on Gates’ blog contains the origins of Altair Basic — a programming language interpreter for the MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer — and “remains the ...
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BASIC Co-Inventor Thomas Kurtz Has Passed Away - Hackaday
It’s with sadness that we note the passing of Thomas E. Kurtz, on November 12th. He was co-inventor of the BASIC programming language back in the 1960s, and though his creation may not receive ...
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It’s the End of Computer Programming as We Know It. (And I Feel Fine.)
The book was full of simple programs written in the accessible BASIC programming language.