28 Jun
2007
28 Jun
'07
8:36 p.m.
--- woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
Chris M wrote:
I had read many years ago that the first thing Jobs
did was in fact write the BASIC interpreter. This
totally mussed my brain up. Turns out that in the
"time sharing" days it was common to hand code
assembly, and present the work Friday afternoon to
the, I don't know, job guy.
And frankly, I hadn't until now contemplated that the
A1's BASIC was written in binary. Lordy
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And...what was the first computer *any* to have
a
rom-BASIC
The Apple (1?) must come fairly close the mark.
I remember (from the web) there there was no source
for the integer
basic , it was all hand coded.