24 Apr
2021
24 Apr
'21
3:25 p.m.
On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 5:19 AM Bill Degnan via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
It is not too hard to imagine a professional
programmer who took a copy of
Dartmouth BASIC and adapted it for this flavor of BASIC, but I personally
dont have any reference docs about it or proof.
[...]
so it may
simply be MINICAL BASIC would have been just as easy for a period
programmer to whip up from scratch.
The latter seems far more likely. From what little is known about it, the
MINCAL architecture is apparently very dissimilar to the GE-225/235/265 or
GE-635, e.g. the MINCAL being a BCD machine, so I'd expect it would have
been much easier to write a new BASIC interpreter for the MINCAL from
scratch than to adapt it from actual Dartmouth BASIC.
Are there any known actual "ports" of Dartmouth BASIC to non-GE/Honeywell
machines, as opposed to scratch reimplementations?