Microsoft Open-Sources "GWBasic" (1983 version for IBM-PC)

[westfw]

Microsoft has open-sourced the 1983 version of GWBASIC:  https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC

It's some pretty nicely commented (IMO) 8086 assembler.  (Intel "strongly typed" assembler, which I always found a bit weird, but it was standard.)

[Syntax Error]

I can say without any fear of contradiction, that's the most well commented code that I have ever seen on Github. The latest commit is 38 years ago. That means this repo is older than Mark Zuckerberg!

[chriva]

I noticed the timestamp too. You just know a nerd somewhere giggled when that tweak was made

[ebclr]

Is Bill Gates involved on this?

[SiliconWizard]

As can be seen in the source code:

BILL GATES WROTE A LOT OF STUFF.
PAUL ALLEN WROTE A LOT OF OTHER STUFF AND FAST CODE.
MONTE DAVIDOFF WROTE THE MATH PACKAGE (F4I.MAC).