Re: Card trick or back to basics
  By: mark lewis to Joe Delahaye on Tue Aug 15 2017 07:59:04

 RN>>> Because it's not IBM BASIC.

 JD>> No, its better .  I dont think that IBM wrote Basic, nor DOS. 
 JD>> That was all M$.  I know there were diffrent versions of Basic.  I
 JD>> used on on the CoCo.

 ML> [quote]
 ML> BASIC stands for "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code."
 ML> Originally 
 ML> designed as an interactive mainframe timesharing language by John Kemeney
 ML> and Thomas Kurtz in 1963, it became widely used on personal computers
 ML> everywhere. On IBM's first "family" computer, the PCJr, a BASIC cartridge
 ML> was a popular add-on. Because of its simplicity, BASIC has frequently been
 ML> used in teaching the introductory concepts of programming with a working
 ML> language.
 ML> [/quote]

The first PC clone, I ever  had and built completely from scratch (no populated
MB or peripherals) had a basic chip.  I eventually removed it when I got a 5MB
HD  and installed Dos.


Joe
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