[SPG_Active_Members] Fw: Here it is! - APL for the Burroughs B5500

[Nigel Williams]

On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Len Shustek <len at shustek.com> wrote:
> By the way, in May we received permission from Apple to release the source
> code of Apple II DOS from 1978. And last Friday I signed an agreement with
> Microsoft for the release of the source code of Microsoft Word version 1.1A.
> Stay tuned for both of those.

They will certainly be interesting to browse.

Two items of Microsoft technology from the early days I would be
interested to see are:

1. The PCODE based applications developed for the Apple Macintosh. I
understand Microsoft Word, Chart, and Multiplan were PCODE based, that
is a small interpreter for pseudo-code to allow the applications to
squeeze into the early 128KB and 512KB compact Macintosh.

2. Microsoft Access version 1..0 or version 1.1. My recollection is
that it was mostly implemented in 8086 assembly code.