1 May
2024
1 May
'24
11:05 p.m.
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. :-)
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