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> I'm looking for the source code of Bill Gates' old language "GW-Basic" .
> Is it available meanwhile or are there still copyright issues ?
Others have answered, but you know just because something has
fallen out of copyright (and I'm not saying it has) doesn't mean
you'll ever see the source code. There is absolutely no obligation
by someone to release it, at any time, GPL excepted. So even
if any Microsoft Basic was no longer copyrighted (I don't think
so, but if any it would be the earliest, starting from 1975)
the only way you'd see source code is if someone happened to
have it, a third party most likely, and let it go.
If you simply want to see the source to a BASIC interpreter,
go and look for early issues of Dr. Dobbs. It started in order
to generate interest in, and actual programs, for a tiny BASIC
that would run in the sort of memory that was common circa 1975.
There were plenty of them published in the early days, and the process
was continued as new CPUs came into hobby circles. There was a tiny
BASIC for the 6809 and the 68000.
Michael