> On May 3, 2024, at 6:22 PM, Sytse van Slooten via cctalk
> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> And since nobody else seems to, allow me to recall:
>
> - MINC BASIC, with all its extensions for I/O and real time events.
>
> - MUBAS, the multi-user basic for RT-11.
>
> And playing around with BASIC is just so much easier and more fun than
> anything else you can do with old hardware or emulations thereof. Run a C
> program? Sure, marvel in how much slower it is than on your desktop, phone,
> or the MCU in your microwave. None of those will have BASIC though, and
> certainly not the MINC extensions with the blinkenlights. And isn't that what
> all the joy is about?
That's one reason I like FORTH: it's just as compact, perhaps more so, fast,
and much more flexible and extensible than BASIC.
I didn't know MINC BASIC, should compare it with the "LABBASIC" I created in
college. The one line description is identical; mine ran on an 11/20 with
AD01, AD11, KW11-P and DR11-A. The programmable clock enabled stuff like take
a vector of samples spaced at a tightly controlled time interval, or run bits
of BASIC code from timer (or DR11) interrupts.
paul
