On 11 Jul 2024, MIKE POWELL said the following...
³All the "little computers" used basic when I started. The mainframes
ran cobol
³or fortran, but because the wee little computers and early PCs were so limited,
³that the Basic Interpreter was what you used.
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They often used a proprietary basic, too.
As an aside, I never really tried it, but I wondered back then if one could take a program written in TI-BASIC and port it over to run under BASIC on a PC. Some of the ones I typed in used sprites and some other things I suspect were unique to TI-BASIC and/or Extended BASIC that
might not have a direct function to translate to.
There was a reference back in the day that mapped the various versions.
I think it listed some 150+ majopr varieties.
It was annoying when subsequent releases depreciated some function or feature that your programs depended upon.
Downside of an interpreted enviornment, compared to a compiled environment where once compiled there was less issues, that is until something machine level was changed....
Adventures!
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