Anyone interested in a flavor of BASIC try my version of BWaterBasic for Linux, Windows and DOS at https://yeolpishack.net/repos/KenUnix/BwBasic
It's pretty fast. Full source and DOCs are also there. Ken On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 7:05 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Wed, 1 May 2024, Mike Katz wrote: > > I'm sorry but the original BASIC as run on the Dartmouth Time Sharing > System > > was compiled. > > I wasn't around Dartmouth, and my first experiences with BASIC were all > interpreted. > > I had run a trivial program in it on a Silent 700 connected through a > phone line, long before I got my first personal computer (TRS80). > > > Thank you for the details of the history. > > > When Microsoft introduced "BASCOM" (their BASIC compiler), my first uses > of it were primarily to make my source code less easily accessible to > would-be infringers. :-) > > > -- > Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com > -- End of line JOB TERMINATED
