23 Nov
2007
23 Nov
'07
3:30 p.m.
On Friday 23 November 2007 16:04, Chris M wrote:
Speaking of which, I have a vague recollection of "Tiny BASIC". Never did
actually use it, though. Any of you guys familiar with it? Is it all that
usable? At all extensible? I can see where it might be handy for some
stuff...
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
The
availability of BASIC on olden personal computers was undoubtedly
a boon for my generation - you could start out with '10 print "i was
here" ; 20 goto 10' and work from there, actually seeing the results
Up through the PS/2's, ~1990 I guess, BASIC was burned into ROM. Even Win2K
comes with QBasic. And again I'm not making an exclusive case for peecees
here. An 8-bit machine could be a better choice (could be, don't know for
sure).