Every gate has its own truth table. Although these seven gates are normally considered the “basic” gates, there are some gates, such as the NAND gate, that are universal, meaning that they can ...

Gates and Paul Allen wrote it in BASIC using a PDP-10 mainframe at Harvard. Gates has now published a 157-page PDF of scanned, yellowed pages for all to see. "That code remains the coolest code I ...

Bill and I were using the same computing tech - the Altair 8800 and DEC's PDP-10 - as BASIC became a gateway for generations of developers. Where were you all those decades ago?

The 157-page PDF available to download on Gates’ blog contains the origins of Altair Basic — a programming language interpreter for the MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer — and “remains the ...

To commemorate the event, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has posted the source code for Microsoft’s first-ever product, Altair BASIC. Gates and Allen thought that the Altair 8800 was a sign ...

Ahead of Microsoft's 50th anniversary this week, co-founder Bill Gates has released the company's original source code. Gates and Paul Allen wrote it in BASIC using a PDP-10 mainframe at Harvard ...

They worked for two months on it, alongside a third friend, Monte Davidoff. Gates charts the origins of Altair BASIC in more detail in his new book, Source Code, which he discussed in an interview ...