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The commodore pet tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about the Commodore PET, a pioneering personal computer from the late 1970s. Recent threads focus on Microsoft's open-sourcing of the 6502 BASIC interpreter, which originally powered the PET and other early microcomputers. Topics include the history of Microsoft's first commercial product, the assembly-language source code release under an MIT license, and its significance for retro computing preservation. Users explore the technical details of the 6502 BASIC version 1.1, its role in the PET, and its impact on modern computing. The tag is relevant for hobbyists, historians, and developers interested in vintage hardware, software preservation, and the origins of Microsoft's software legacy.
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    Microsoft 6502 BASIC Open-Sourced: A 1970s ROM-Era Interpreter

    Nearly half a century after those first keystrokes on primitive terminals, Microsoft has made public the assembly-language source for its 6502-targeted BASIC interpreter — a compact, remarkable artifact of early microcomputer engineering that is now available on GitHub under a permissive MIT...
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    Microsoft Open-Sources 6502 BASIC 1.1: Preserving an 8-bit Interpreter

    Microsoft has published the assembly source for “BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor — Version 1.1” on GitHub under a modern permissive license, making the exact code that powered a generation of home computers readable, buildable, and reusable by anyone — hobbyists, historians, educators, and...
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    Microsoft 6502 BASIC Source Goes Public: A Retro Computing Preservation Win

    Microsoft's decision to put the original 6502-targeted Microsoft BASIC source into the public eye is both a tidy act of software preservation and a reminder of how much of modern computing grew from tiny, highly optimized assembly programs—code once written by Bill Gates and his earliest...
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