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Re:The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983 by jhallenworld on Thursday May 21, 2020 @11:09PM (#23268314)
Well this was way before the IBM PC.. Microsoft clearly had a plan in those days. They implemented all of the popular languages for microprocessors: Fortran-80, Cobol-80, Basic, PASCAL- but not C. They bought C from Lattice.

(I started with 6800 / 6809 assembly language, and then Microsoft C 4.0).

Also: PDP-10 (TENEX) was awesome to use, was a very nice development platform.

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Re:The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983 by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Thursday May 21, 2020 @11:16PM (#23268347)
The PC in the comment was referring to “personal computer” in the generic sense.

It is interesting now to see Microsoft going back to its roots as a provider of developer tools for multiple platforms.

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