Microsoft has released 6,955 lines of BASIC assembly code from 1976 Bill Gates and Ric Weiland adapted BASIC for the MOS 6502 Commodore licensed Microsoft BASIC in 1977 for $25,000 worldwide Nearly ...

We'd venture that most folks under 40 or so aren't aware that Bill Gates and Paul Allen, former head honchos of Microsoft, actually started their empire as hardcore programmers, and darn good ones at ...

Home Computer Archeology: Few early Microsoft products left as lasting a mark as 6502 BASIC. The interpreter introduced millions of people to computers and programming, shaping the next generation of ...

An overriding memory for those who used 8-bit machines back in the day was of using BASIC to program them. Without a disk-based operating system as we would know it today, these systems invariably ...

Microsoft wouldn't have had to compile BASIC on a PC - they could have in theory cross-compiled on a minicomputer like a PDP-11 or something, that was a bit more powerful, to produce the binary for ...

It's my understanding that there really still isn't. There are C compilers for the 6502, but I've gathered that they just don't generate good code. It's okay for simple utilities, but if you want to ...