Sunday, 24 May 2020

Microsoft drops a little surprise thank-you gift for sitting through Build: The source for GW-BASIC

Microsoft drops a little surprise thank-you gift for sitting through Build: The source for GW-BASIC

Build Microsoft delighted retro fans by closing its Build conference with an open-sourcing of 1983's GW-BASIC. Warning that he would not be accepting pull requests from fans seeking to scratch a 37-year-old itch, senior program manager Rich Turner made the treble by adding the open-sourcing to the already-scored goals of Windows Terminal 1.0 and the impending arrival of GUI and GPU support in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.
Read more: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/22/gw_basic/?source=Snapzu

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