{"id":14531,"date":"2020-05-23T00:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=14531"},"modified":"2020-05-22T17:29:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T15:29:43","slug":"microsoft-gibt-gw-basic-als-open-source-frei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2020\/05\/23\/microsoft-gibt-gw-basic-als-open-source-frei\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft releases GW-Basic as Open Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/?p=231982\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]A brief info: Microsoft has released the source code of the GW-Basic interpreter, which was delivered in the early days on IBM PCs, as open source in the environment of the BUILD 2020 developer conference. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/vg04.met.vgwort.de\/na\/ad9c2340ddb74d55b0bf526591f21533\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">Probably only older blog readers still remember the times when the first IBM PCs and compatible PCs were delivered in Europe. The first IBM PC\/XT with 8088 processor that has been shipped to Europe has been on my desk before I delivered that system to an inhouse customer. At that time I got photocopied documentation from IBM, because Bill Gates and his small company Microsoft didn't have the manuals ready &#8211; they came weeks later. On all IBM PC compatible systems there was a basic interpreter in ROM at that time. <\/p>\n<p>Those who interpret themselves for the details will find some details in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GW-BASIC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikipedia<\/a>. According to Wikipedia, GW-Basic was distributed between 1983 and 1991 as part of the operating system MS-DOS up to version 4.02. After that QBasic and the later released QuickBASIC replaced the GW-Basic interpreter. That was the time when Borland caused a sensation with its Turbo-Pascal. So one of my first books, published in 1989, addressed Microsoft's QuickBasic (the other two titles were related to Borland's Turbo-Pascal and Turbo-Basic \u2013 my first book ever I wrote, was dedicated to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Locomotive_BASIC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Locomotive Basic<\/a>, shipped with the Amstrad PCs). <\/p>\n<h2>GW-Basic as Open Source <\/h2>\n<p>I found out via&nbsp; the following tweet, that Microsoft now makes the step and releases the source code of GW-Basic as open source. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Microsoft open sources GW-BASIC!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nZ6qECyPHJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/nZ6qECyPHJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anatoly Shashkin (@dosnostalgic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dosnostalgic\/status\/1263611327064485889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>The assembler source code of the 8088 port for MS-DOS from 1983 was released on May 22, 2020 under the MIT license. Microsoft has described the whole thing in <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/microsoft-open-sources-gw-basic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this blog post<\/a>. Background for the release are multiple requests from the user community to get the Basic port as open source in addition to MS-DOS. The Microsoft article also contains some information about the historical context. The source code of GW-Basic is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/GW-BASIC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GitHub<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]A brief info: Microsoft has released the source code of the GW-Basic interpreter, which was delivered in the early days on IBM PCs, as open source in the environment of the BUILD 2020 developer conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1319],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-14531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}