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Microsoft's 6502 BASIC Is Now Open Source
Thursday September 4, 2025. 06:49 PM , from Slashdot
![]() The 6502 port was completed in 1976 by Bill Gates and Ric Weiland. In 1977, Commodore licensed it for a flat fee of $25,000, a deal that placed Microsoft BASIC at the heart of Commodore's PET computers and, later, the VIC-20 and Commodore 64. The version we are releasing here -- labeled '1.1' -- contains fixes to the garbage collector identified by Commodore and jointly implemented in 1978 by Commodore engineer John Feagans and Bill Gates, when Feagans traveled to Microsoft's Bellevue offices. This is the version that shipped as the PET's 'BASIC V2.' It even contains a playful Bill Gates Easter egg, hidden in the labels STORDO and STORD0, which Gates himself confirmed in 2010. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/04/1649210/microsofts-6502-basic-is-now-open-source?utm_source...
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