Raspberry Pi Boot to BASIC

Re:Raspberry Pi Boot to BASIC by pjmlp on Thursday January 06, 2022 @01:57PM (#29828134)

Regarding the BASIC nostalgia, only recently did I became aware that the original BASIC (Dartmouth BASIC) was actually JIT based and it was the adaption of BASIC into the home computers that kind of made its interpreted version more widely known.

While there were several flavours of BASIC compilers there were never as widely spread as these interpreters.

I find it interesting, it could have been yet another what-if, had the compilers been as widely accessible.

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Re:Raspberry Pi Boot to BASIC by boznz on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:34PM (#29828720)

Boot-to-Basic Computers are great fun and excellent for learning but just do not have the stack to build real world applications in 2021 on eg SQL, sockets, SSL, etc

I would love to be able to just turn on the computer and have a simple basic program run a touchscreen interface to my factory SQL systems but we truly must stand on the shoulders of giants in this regard.

(talking about boot-to-basic here no basics that run on an OS and can access the whole OS stack)

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Re:Raspberry Pi Boot to BASIC by a9h74j on Friday January 07, 2022 @02:51AM (#29836270)

Did a search to see if it has been done. Yes, there is an EFI Basic of sorts:

UEFI Basic

https://github.com/LHerrmeyer/UEFI_Basic

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Re:Raspberry Pi Boot to BASIC by pjmlp on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:48PM (#29828928)

Maybe you would enjoy to have a look at Meadow, they support VB.NET.

However it does rely on NuttX for the runtime services.

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