CUDA Released in Basic

apples2apples 29 points 8 comments April 01, 2026
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LouisvilleGeek

Might as well stay off the internet on April 1st.

bitwize

It's all ha-ha until you realize that some versions of Dartmouth BASIC actually had matrix operation primitives, and so might've been a good choice for implementing GPU-accelerated linear algebra kernels. (It was also compiled; Microsoft basically established BASIC's reputation as a slow language by shipping an interpreter-only version for the Altair and later machines. As usual, Microsoft gonna Microsoft.)

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