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fromInfoQ
1 day ago

Building a More Appealing CLI for Agentic LLMs Based on Learnings from the Textual Framework

Early home computing and game creation led Will McGugan to develop text-based UIs and CLI tools that make terminal interaction more approachable.
fromTheregister
3 months ago

Microsoft open-sources 6502 BASIC coded by Bill Gates

As the software colossus explained in a Wednesday post, Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote the company's first product, BASIC for the Altair 8800 microcomputer and the Intel 8080 processor that powered it, in 1975. A year later Gates and Ric Weiland, Microsoft's second employee, ported Microsoft BASIC to the 6502 processor. In 1977, Commodore Computer licensed it for $25,000 and used Microsoft BASIC in its PET, VIC-20, and Commodore 64 machines.
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