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petilon • today at 1:39 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

In this [1] interview Gates says that he and his group got DEC BASIC source code and enhanced it.

[1] https://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/gates.htm

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abecedarius • today at 2:45 AM

"The BASIC they did which we got ahold of the BASIC source code and enhanced t quite a bit was great."

Thanks! I think this is still talking about his high school volunteer hacking rather than the MS Basic era. (i.e. doesn't obviously support your "ported it".)

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