Tea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-221 days agoCelebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code.www.gatesnotes.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up174arrow-down117
arrow-up157arrow-down1external-linkCelebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code.www.gatesnotes.comTea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-221 days agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squareLupusBlackfur@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54arrow-down4·edit-221 days ago“original”… That’s a stretch since M$ bought QDOS and modified it into what they called “MS-DOS”. 🙄 🙄
minus-squareTimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up25arrow-down1·21 days agoThe article is about Altair BASIC. That one was actually homegrown.
minus-squareArghblarg@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·20 days ago… but allegedly based on stolen source printouts from the college dumpster, and written using stolen time on their timeshare mainframes.
“original”…
That’s a stretch since M$ bought QDOS and modified it into what they called “MS-DOS”.
🙄 🙄
The article is about Altair BASIC. That one was actually homegrown.
… but allegedly based on stolen source printouts from the college dumpster, and written using stolen time on their timeshare mainframes.