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by abecedarius5 hours ago |
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upvoteby petilon4 hours ago|
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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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upvoteby abecedarius3 hours ago|
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"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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upvoteby petilon2 hours ago|
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They got the source code of DEC Basic, studied it, "enhanced quite a bit" then wrote their own Basic which is similar to DEC Basic, and you don't think it is a derivative? Ok. It is a derivative in my book.
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