微软通过一篇博客文章宣布开放 GW-BASIC 的源代码。并表示，自从 MS-DOS 1.25 和 2.0 开源后，社区中要求同样开源 BASIC 语言的呼声颇高。因此微软选择将 1983 年以来的 8088 汇编语言开源出来，但仅作历史参考和教育用途，不再接收任何修改源码的拉取请求。

Having re-open-sourced MS-DOS on GitHub in 2018, Microsoft has now released the source code for GW-BASIC, Microsoft's 1983 BASIC interpreter. GW-BASIC can trace its roots back to Bill Gates' and Paul ...

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, if you had a personal computer there was a fair chance it either booted into some version of Microsoft Basic or you could load and run Basic. There were other ...

Microsoft has open sourced GW-BASIC, a programming language developed some 38 years ago. GW-BASIC and variants such as QBasic, QuickBasic and others provided the onramp to computer programming for ...