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A funny thing about the original Microsoft Source Code

April 10, 2025

In 1976, Bill Gates accused computer users of "stealing" software.

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BASIC is a language created at Dartmouth in 1964 by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz.

To celebrate its 50th, Microsoft released the source code to their first product, Altair BASIC, written in 1975.

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The 157 pages of source code contain zero mentions of Kemeny, Kurtz or Dartmouth.

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