Software King of the World goes full retro, slings Altair BASIC source for the nostalgia crowd

The Software King of the World, Sir William Gates III, is marking Microsoft’s 50th birthday by releasing the digital equivalent of a baby photo onto the internet—a 150-page slab of Intel 8080 assembly code from Altair BASIC. This code launched the empire.

Co-invented BASIC

Thomas Eugene Kurtz, the American mathematician and computer scientist who co-invented the BASIC programming language and the Dartmouth Timesharing System, has died. He was 96.