A few months after releasing the Altair BASIC source code, Microsoft has shared another cornerstone of its early software success. The company announced that 6502 BASIC ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated. The first generation mainframe computers were essentially programmed as they were assembled, like a jigsaw puzzle with ...

The code Microsoft has released is version 1.1, which apparently contains fixes to the garbage collector identified by ...

The basic idea of notes is to keep them short, but have enough triggers in the keywords to jumpstart your memory when you look at them again: Stick to keywords and very short sentences.

With the new year upon us, it's time to make the usual litany of resolutions. Maybe one of those resolutions could be to keep yourself better organized so your life doesn't spiral into the dark abyss ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, a Creator of BASIC Computer Language, Dies at 96 At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers.

Tagging is a feature that can separate a basic notes app from a powerful one. And when it comes to note-taking apps, you used to have to choose a third-party option (often one that cost money) to ...