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    hunterk I would say this is about the time these sorts of things should be falling into the public domain. It's commercially useless and now only has any value historically and educationally.

    Good on MS for doing it all the same.
    tomman ...well, it's GWBASIC, in all its '80s assembly code splendor:
    https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/microsoft-open-sources-gw-basic/
    https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Microsoft-Open-Source-GW-BASIC
    https://slashdot.org/story/20/05/23/0046201/after-37-years-microsoft-open-sources-gw-basic

    At this pace, we will have Visual Basic 1 opensourced next decade!
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