1 May
2024
1 May
'24
11:18 p.m.
Fred,
It's not a big deal. I was exposed to the DTSS as a 7th grader because
I was going to a boarding school near by in 1972.
The school I was at had a PDP-8/L and I became an early adopter computer
geek.🙂
On 5/1/2024 6:05 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
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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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com