Steve Wozniak's floating point routines for the 6502

Re:Steve Wozniak's floating point routines for the 6502 by flomo on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @02:50AM (#20399705)

Sorry to sperg, but "Integer BASIC" was almost certainly a retronym, a term which didn't exist prior to AppleSoft. Originally it was probably called Apple BASIC, just like ever other [manufacturer] BASIC (at least colloquially).

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Re:Steve Wozniak's floating point routines for the 6502 by scarface74 on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @07:14AM (#20400861)

From the best I can tell, it was always referred to as Integer Basic and never “Apple Basic”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_BASIC

I do know that it was referred to that as far back as 1980. I’ve never seen a reference to it as “Apple Basic” and I had an Apple //e in 1986.

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Re:Steve Wozniak's floating point routines for the 6502 by flomo on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @11:37AM (#20402986)

AppleSoft (MS) BASIC came out very early in Apple II lifecycle, and prior to that there would have been no reason to call the original BASIC anything other than BASIC. Afterwards, of course, all the documentation and commands were updated.

Woz originally called it "Game BASIC", some history at this page: http://woz.org/letters/apple-basic/

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