In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central component of many early home computers, The Register reports. As far back as ...

ChatGPT Writes Decent Computer Code, When It Sticks to the Basics When asked to solve 728 coding problems, GPT-3.5 mostly makes the grade, but things get stickier when it's presented with data added ...

Whether you’re streaming a show, paying bills online or sending an email, each of these actions relies on computer programs that run behind the scenes. The process of writing computer programs is ...

Gates and Allen tackled the challenge by latching onto the BASIC computer language that had been developed in 1964 at Dartmouth College, but they still had to figure out a way to make the technology ...

Microsoft’s Historic 6502 BASIC Code is Now Open Source Your email has been sent Microsoft has officially released the code for its 6502 BASIC version under an open ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In Bill Gates' new autobiography, "Source Code: My Beginnings" (published February 4 by Knopf), the computer pioneer and ...

Thomas Kurtz, the Dartmouth professor who co-created the computer language BASIC and the networking system DTSS with John Kemeny, helping launch the computer revolution, has died. He was 96. Kurtz was ...