This one-line Commodore 64 program, which prints a never-ending , maze-like pattern, inspired an ... the microcomputer versions of BASIC were all different,” Kurtz says.

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 ...