[Coco] Microsoft released the old GW_Basic under the MIT License

John Guin johnguin at hotmail.com
Fri May 22 19:43:01 EDT 2020


There are comments in there about the PDP-100...

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From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> On Behalf Of James Ross
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John Guin wrote:
> You can hop over to github to see it:
> https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fmicrosoft%2FGW-BASIC&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cda7008f16ce942668fc208d7fe9ec585%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637257830179204130&sdata=R4vasax3AMDwt2ieucx9HGkT4gf60Mrvenw%2B3hWJ2sw%3D&reserved=0

this is cool! ... the code in there is all about the 8086 segments!  

I think this is a good omen from MS.  Add to that ... all the stuff they have open sourced, like all of the .NET platform and the Roslyn compiler.  

-jr

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