4 May
2024
4 May
'24
1:27 a.m.
On May 3, 2024, at 6:22 PM, Sytse van Slooten via
cctalk <cctalk(a)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