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 |
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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 |