Tea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agoCelebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code.www.gatesnotes.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up176arrow-down117cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ziphackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
arrow-up159arrow-down1external-linkCelebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code.www.gatesnotes.comTea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agomessage-square14fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ziphackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
minus-squareLupusBlackfur@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up57arrow-down4·edit-23 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-up28arrow-down1·3 days agoThe article is about Altair BASIC. That one was actually homegrown.
minus-squareArghblarg@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 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.