Fifty Tamil tutors are assiduously trying to impart the basics of the language to about 1,500 Hindi-speaking students at various schools under the Tamil Karkalam (Let’s Learn Tamil) programme, ...

CHENNAI: MNM president and MP Kamal Haasan on Sunday released the book The Man Who Fed India, to commemorate the centenary of late agriculture scientist MS Swamianthan, authored by Priyambada ...

This course teaches the fundamentals of gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Attendees will gain a firm foundation in these techniques by learning about the ...

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday announced the Kalaimamani Awards for the years 2021, 2022 and 2023, and the recipients of awards at the national level. The national level awardees ...

Microsoft has released 6,955 lines of BASIC assembly code from 1976 Bill Gates and Ric Weiland adapted BASIC for the MOS 6502 Commodore licensed Microsoft BASIC in 1977 for $25,000 worldwide Nearly ...

Late last week, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered early personal computers like the Commodore PET, VIC-20, ...

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit series, NES, and Atari 2600. Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit ...