Physicists have made a novel discovery regarding the interaction of electronic excitations via spin waves. The finding could open the door to future technologies and advanced applications such as ...

Gates and Allen saw the opportunity to produce a BASIC interpreter for the machine and pitched it to Roberts. According to legend, no code had been written when they originally spoke to MITS about ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has shared the 1975 source code for Altair BASIC. The code was the foundation on which Microsoft was built. Before Windows and before Office, there was a carefully ...

Ahead of Microsoft's 50th anniversary this week, co-founder Bill Gates has released the company's original source code. Gates and Paul Allen wrote it in BASIC using a PDP-10 mainframe at Harvard.

In a nostalgic nod to Microsoft’s origins, co-founder Bill Gates has released the source code for Altair BASIC, the software that marked the beginning of the tech giant’s journey. This release ...

To mark the occasion, Gates has released the source code he and Allen wrote for the Altair 8800 – dubbed Altair BASIC – which became the company's first product. Reminiscing about Microsoft's ...

They worked for two months on it, alongside a third friend, Monte Davidoff. Gates charts the origins of Altair BASIC in more detail in his new book, Source Code, which he discussed in an interview ...

The 157-page PDF available to download on Gates’ blog contains the origins of Altair Basic — a programming language interpreter for the MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer — and “remains the ...