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Re:A Program from a 35 Year Old Magazine for BASIC Month and... by hnlmorg on Thursday October 05, 2017 @04:00AM (#15407358)
I hated Mircosoft BASIC in the 80s. Platforms like the C64 had widespread appeal but the BASIC it shipped always felt backwards compared to other micro computers I used in that era. But then we were spoilt in the UK with the likes of BBC BASIC (Acorn - the same company that gave us the ARM CPU) and Locomotive BASIC (Amstrad).
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Re:A Program from a 35 Year Old Magazine for BASIC Month and... by Narishma on Thursday October 05, 2017 @12:19PM (#15410365)
That's more on Commodore than Microsoft. They kept using the cheap bare-bones Microsoft BASIC license they got for the original PET on all their subsequent computers even though later versions were much better.
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