SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
posted by
Fnord666
on Saturday May 23 2020, @10:46AM
from the statute-of-limitations-has-run-out dept.
from the statute-of-limitations-has-run-out dept.
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.
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
Microsoft Open-Sources their BASIC Code from 1983
|
Log In/Create an Account
| Top
| 16 comments
| Search Discussion
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
Ten years of rejection slips is nature's way of telling you to stop writing.
-- R. Geis
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2020, @05:13PM (1 child)
the submitter should have just said "goto sourcecode"
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Sunday May 24 2020, @05:48AM
You tell them, then. I mean, you gosub.