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Gates marks Microsoft's 50th anniversary by releasing his original Altair BASIC source code
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For Microsoft's 50th anniversary on April 4, 2025, Bill Gates published the original source code for Altair BASIC — the roughly 150-page Intel 8080 assembly-language program he and Paul Allen wrote in 1975 to run on the MITS Altair 8800 — calling it 'the coolest code I've ever written.' Gates reflected on hunching over a PDP-10 in Harvard's computer lab to write what became Microsoft's first product, inspired by the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics featuring the Altair. The release made the foundational code publicly viewable as a piece of computing history. The milestone prompted broader reflection from Gates on the company's arc from a two-person startup to a global technology giant.
Source: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/bill_gates_altair_basic/
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