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How much does Micro-80 BASIC resemble Microsoft BASIC?
The first DIY Soviet home computer Micro-80 and its successor Radio-86RK had an implementation of BASIC available (albeit not in ROM, but as an loadable binary). A page from which the link is taken ...
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Why is the original Altair BASIC (for the 8080 CPU) source code not available on-line?
As described by The Register in 2001, around 1987 journalists
and others started asking Bill Gates for a copy of the source code for
the original version of Altair (eventually Micro-Soft) BASIC, ...
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