That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started releasing some of its classic operating systems and programs as open ...

"Rick Weiland and I (Bill Gates) wrote the 6502 BASIC," Gates commented on the Page Table blog in 2010. "I put the WAIT ...

Microsoft called the code—written by the company’s founder, Bill Gates, and its second-ever employee, Ric Weiland—”one of the ...

[David] is building a project with an OLED, a keyboard, and an RP2040. He’s perfected a scanning routine in C to work with the keyboard, but he still had some places he wanted to use even lower-level ...

Trump administration officials hosted an event on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday purporting to ...

Microsoft's earlier attempt, Windows RT, was even worse. Released alongside Windows 8, it was intended for Arm-based devices, ...

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit series, NES, and Atari 2600.

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Most people’s memories of programming in the 8-bit era revolve around BASIC, and not without reason. Most of the time, it was ...

The BASIC source code was fundamental to the early era of home computing as the foundation of many of Commodore's computers.

David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming spaces. Over the last decade, he's reviewed phones for TechRadar as well as covered tech, gaming, and culture for Engadget, Popular Mechanics ...