Bill Gates releases source code to Altair Basic, written 50 years ago to launch Microsoft (www.gatesnotes.com)

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Jesus. Like him or not, those guys started writing raw assembly. I have a lot of respect that they could go from nothing to writing a compiler raw out of assembly

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, it's easy to forget sometimes that they were actually pretty good coders to get started. Obviously that doesn't always translate to corporate leadership. But hey, assembly is far better than Zuckerberg's start (PHP?)

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