22 Sep
2013
22 Sep
'13
7:35 p.m.
On 9/22/2013 6:31 PM, Rick Bensene wrote:
The Wang 2200 executed BASIC directly, though it was a
microcoded engine
that did the execution.
If you consider a microcoded processor that accepts BASIC statements and
tokenizes them on input, and executes the tokenized code when the BASIC
program is run a "hardware" implementation of BASIC, then this probably
fits the criteria of the posting above.
But did not the classic computers, in the late 50's plan for the very
same idea, with true stack based languages using logic gates rather than
microcode. Getting side tracked with time sharing, is what gave us Basic
in my view. Ben.