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Tech industry
fromFortune
4 days ago

Microsoft's IPO turns 40 today. If you invested $1,000 in Microsoft in 1986, you'd have $5.5 million today | Fortune

Microsoft transformed from a two-person software company spotting opportunity in a 1975 magazine cover into a global technology giant reshaping how the world works, communicates, and builds over five decades.
History
fromZDNET
6 months ago

MS-BASIC 1.1 introduced programming to a generation - now you can download it for free

Microsoft open-sourced the 6502 assembly code of MS-BASIC (Microsoft BASIC 1.1), a foundational early-PC programming language, under the MIT License.
fromThe Verge
6 months ago

Microsoft open-sources its 6502 version of BASIC from 1976

After years of unofficial copies of Microsoft's 6502 BASIC floating around on the internet, the software giant has released the code under an open-source license. 6502 BASIC was one of Microsoft's first pieces of software, adapted in 1976 by Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and early employee Ric Weiland to run on the 6502 CPU that powered the Apple II, Atari 2600, Nintendo Entertainment System, and Commodore 8-bit series.
Software development
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