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

[Len Shustek]

We are starting to establish a good working relationship with 
Microsoft for the preservation and release of their historic 
software. As the process develops I will keep those on the shortlist 
to ask for. I don't mean to be a tease, but I've got another one in 
the pipeline at the moment that I shouldn't identify but will 
probably be of interest.
-- Len


At 07:49 PM 9/8/2013, Nigel Williams wrote:
>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.