Altair BASIC
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Altair BASIC is a discontinued interpreter for the BASIC programming language that ran on the MITS Altair 8800 and subsequent S-100 bus computers. It was Microsoft's first product (as Micro-Soft), distributed by MITS under a contract. Altair BASIC was the start of the Microsoft BASIC product range.
Programming language interpreter software, first product developed by Microsoft
 The title page of the assembly language code that produced Altair BASIC | |
| Original author(s) | Micro-Soft |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | |
| Initial release | 2.0 (4K and 8K editions) July 1, 1975; 47 years ago (1975-07-01)[3][4][5][6] |
| Stable release | 5.0
/ 14 July 1978; 44 years ago (1978-07-14) |
| Platform | Altair 8800 |
| Type | Microsoft BASIC |