Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

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On Fri, 22 May 2020, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:

> On Fri, 22 May 2020, Boris Gimbarzevsky wrote:
>> Thanks for posting the timeline of various Basic interpreters.  I wasn't 
>> aware that Gates/Allen also wrote Basic for C64.
>
> Microsoft did a BASIC for the Commodore PET.  I wasn't aware that they did 
> the C64.
>
Yep.  Jack Tramiel not only used Microsoft BASIC in just about every 8 bit 
machine Commodore made, but he struck a non-royalty deal with Microsoft. 
:)

Here's the source code for Microsoft BASIC for the 6502:

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=774

g.

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