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

A few months after releasing the Altair BASIC source code, Microsoft has shared another cornerstone of its early software success. The company announced that 6502 BASIC ...

The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage ...

That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started ...

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

Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central ...

In 1977, Commodore licensed BASIC for $25,000 as a one-time payment, securing perpetual use without royalties.

"We are at a point in history where something amazing is happening, and it may be amazingly good, and it may be amazingly bad ...

Quantum computers are a key emerging technology, particularly for specific kinds of problems that require enormous computing ...

While we’re enjoying the last days of summer, many signs of fall are already here: the UC Davis campus buzzing with staff and ...

Today, Microsoft open-sourced the 6502 BASIC interpreter, the Commodore-specific port of Gates and Allen's first-ever ...

Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Rick, and many others developed software that made computers intelligible to the common man. Bill ...