Officially, the PreComputer was programmable in a form of BASIC ... the manual about this programming language, [Robin] was suspicious as to whether it was based on Microsoft BASIC-80.

Bill Gates celebrated Microsoft’s 50th Anniversary ... on Gates’ blog contains the origins of Altair Basic — a programming language interpreter for the MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer ...

A regular column about programming. Because if/when the machines take over, we should at least speak their language ... banished—in the world of Microsoft Visual Basic, which many non-coder ...

This week, Microsoft is celebrating its 50th anniversary ... reached out to the company to pitch an interpreter of the BASIC programming language for the Altair 8800. The software would allow ...

Microsoft’s first product was a version of the BASIC programming language for the machine. Much to Gates’ chagrin, though, people weren’t paying for it. Instead, they shared copies of it ...

Microsoft recently decided ... The resulting discussion around “my language is better than your language” takes me back. I learned to code using BASIC in the 1970s. BASIC had line numbers ...

“The coolest code I’ve ever written.” With these words, Bill Gates introduces a blog post that celebrates Microsoft’s 50th anniversary by looking back on how the company got started.

The programming language would provide the intellectual ... who used a variation of it as the foundation for the first Microsoft operating systems. Versions of BASIC still empower computer ...

I first became a Microsoft customer in 1980. My first computer, an Apple II, came with Applesoft BASIC, a programming language that the company licensed to Apple in 1977. I used it to write a ...

Before Microsoft (or even Micro-soft), there ... Gates and Allen believed that enabling its chip to run a version of the Basic programming language would revolutionize the industry.