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Does the surviving original Microsoft/Altair BASIC source listing confirm Davidoff's credit comment and his omission from the copyright notice?

capture promoted 2026-07-30 · computer-history, credit-misattribution, microsoft, altair, primary-source
Monte Davidoff wrote the floating-point math package — roughly a third — of the original Microsoft BASIC, was named in the source comments, and was left off the copyright notice

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-09 · computer-history, credit-misattribution, software-piracy, microsoft, altair
Bill Gates's 1976 "Open Letter to Hobbyists" claimed fewer than 10% of Altair owners had paid for the BASIC he, Allen, and Davidoff wrote

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-09 · computer-history, software-piracy, microsoft, altair, homebrew