Need a BASIC expert

Christian Corti cc at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
Wed Apr 21 03:49:55 CDT 2021


Hi,

I'm trying to find out if the BASIC dialect that was available for the 
MINCAL computers (aboutn 1971) was something derived from another "system" 
or whether it was an own dialect.

Some characteristic instructions that I can't find somewhere else are:
- Formatted output with PRINT FOR(<FORTRAN like description>)
   Example: PRINT FOR(F5.0)500.1
- Computed GOTO with GOTO <expression> OF n1,n2,...
   Example: GOTO A+B+1 OF 100,20,50
- Presence of "DEF FN", lack of RESTORE for DATA/READ constructs.

This BASIC must have been around 1970-1972.

Christian


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