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Altair Basic Source Code
- Paul and Bill Gates wrote the code that became the first product of their new company, Microsoft, in the 1970s.
- The code was for an Altair BASIC interpreter, which translated code into instructions line by line.
- They simulated the Intel 8080 chip to test the software without an actual Altair computer.
- The source code is available as a scanned PDF, and an annotated disassembly of Altair BASIC 3.2 is on GitHub.
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