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Oh, interesting. I wonder what implications this will have for the MS Basic disassembly project: https://github.com/mist64/msbasic
There would probably be a few "Ah Hah!" moments for code that stumped them, and lessons to be learned on any particular errors they made.
For more information on why this happened check out Richard's blog post: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/microsoft-open-so...
> Alas, we’re unable to provide sources for these ports and/or customizations.
I wonder why. (I guess it might involve code licensed from third parties, co-developed and jointly owned with OEM vendors, or unclear provenance of IP.)
I wonder if it will ever change. I hope one day it does.
One of these days (probably long after I'm dead) the copyright will expire. I hope the source code hasn't been lost by then. (Sadly, there's a decent chance it will have been.)
This is great! But it makes me think that Microsoft need to add a BASIC compiler as standard in all Windows distributions. They did that Small Basic thing a while back, but it was too encumbered in .NET-isms, a kind of Visual Basic .NET lite. It would be great if there was just a easy to understand BASIC that you could hack away with that could produce interesting programs without the .NET cruft or the barrier that i…
I'd love QBasic from a few years later.
I'd also love a nice, easy-to-run Ubuntu .deb for either.
Oh, interesting. I wonder what implications this will have for the MS Basic disassembly project: https://github.com/mist64/msbasic
While it might initially feel like a downer, it would still be quite educational on its own to go through the code comparing what they came up with in the disassembly in light of the real deal being now published. There would probably be a few "Ah Hah!" moments for code that stumped them, and lessons to be learned on any particular errors they made.
> ORIGINALLY WRITTEN ON THE PDP-10 FROM FEBRUARY 9 TO APRIL 9 1975
Wow! I did not realize that it was written so quickly. Two months that literally changed the PC landscape forever.
Oh, interesting. I wonder what implications this will have for the MS Basic disassembly project: https://github.com/mist64/msbasic
While it might initially feel like a downer, it would still be quite educational on its own to go through the code comparing what they came up with in the disassembly in light of the real deal being now published. There would probably be a few "Ah Hah!" moments for code that stumped them, and lessons to be learned on any particular errors they made.
Oh, interesting. I wonder what implications this will have for the MS Basic disassembly project: https://github.com/mist64/msbasic
For...legal reasons? Or because they lost it?