Microsoft revealed on Wednesday the source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the interpreter from 1978 that drove several systems through customised modifications, the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II. Under an MIT license, which lets anyone freely use, change, and share the 6,955 lines of assembly language code the company shared on GitHub. The code that started the personal computer movement was quite important.
Writing the 6502 BASIC, Rick Weiland Bill Gates
There was an interaction between Microsoft’s low-level 6502 code Chuck Peddle’s’s MOS 6502
Designer Chuck Peddle created the 6502 so as to make computers available to the masses, and manufacturers included different versions of the chip into millions of Commodore computers, as well as devices such as the Atari 2600 and high priced Nintendo Switch
