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XDA Developers on MSN16h

Microsoft just made its own code from the 70s open source, and you can download it right now

Microsoft just open-sourced 6502 BASIC (BASIC M6502 8K VER 1.1) from 1978. The code powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, and ...

Microsoft Open Sources 6502 BASIC

Microsoft announced that it has open sourced the source code for 6502 BASIC, one of first ports of its original BASIC.
The Register on MSN5h

Microsoft open-sources the 6502 BASIC coded by Bill Gates himself

GOTO 1976 Microsoft has open-sourced the version of BASIC it created in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor used in many early microcomputers.… As the software colossus explained in a Wednesday post, ...

Microsoft open-sources its 6502 version of BASIC from 1976

“In 1977, Commodore licensed it for a flat fee of $25,000, a deal that placed Microsoft BASIC at the heart of Commodore’s PET ...