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Microsoft Open-Sources their BASIC Code from 1983

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday May 23 2020, @10:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the statute-of-limitations-has-run-out dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:

Microsoft Has Now Open-Source Their BASIC Code From 1983 - Phoronix:

Microsoft GW-BASIC is now open-source following their prior open-sourcing of older MS-DOS versions. This original Microsoft BASIC version being open-sourced is from 1983 and is simply being open-sourced for historical purposes.

This Microsoft BASIC interpreter is written in Assembly, to no surprise considering the ivntage[sic] of the software. But Microsoft did push this code through a translator in order to make use of newer x86 ISA capabilities. As such, the code being open-sourced is that derived from their original source code.

More details on this Microsoft BASIC open-sourcing via their dev blog while the code is on GW-BASIC via GitHub.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2020, @12:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2020, @12:21PM (#998125)

    Microsoft started messing around with Cancerous Open Source Linux, and now they have to release their source code.

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