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642:); within a few months this was replaced by a port of BASIC-80 which incorporated some of Level I BASIC's command set, particularly the commands for setting graphics characters. Level II BASIC contained some of the features of Extended BASIC, although due to the need to include Level I commands such as
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Microsoft ported BASIC-80 to the 6502 during the summer of 1976; it was mostly a straight port of the 8K version of BASIC-80 and included the same prompts asking for memory size and if the user wanted floating point functions enabled or not (having them active used an extra 135 bytes of memory). The
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MBASIC is a stripped-down BASIC-80 with only hardware-neutral functions. However, due to the popularity of CP/M, the great majority of Z80 machines ran MBASIC, rather than a version customized for specific hardware (TRS-80 BASIC was one of the few exceptions). Microsoft's CP/M card for the Apple II
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home computer. Although very similar to
Microsoft BASIC, it was not written by Microsoft as was widely rumored. According to TI Engineer H. Schuurman, "They (in the form of Bob Greenberg of Microsoft) were contracted to develop BASIC for the SR-70 (which is also sometimes referred to as the 99/7),
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structures, user defined functions, more advanced program editing commands, and descriptive error messages as opposed to error numbers. Numeric variables now had three basic types, % denoted 16-bit integers, # denoted 64-bit doubles, and ! denoted 32-bit singles, but this was the default
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The TRS-80 Model 4 had a newer disk-based BASIC that utilized the BASIC-80 5.x core, which included support for 40-character variable names. Thus the ability to crunch program lines (without spaces between keywords and arguments) was no longer possible as it had been in Level II. It was no longer
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statement. As compensation for not having double precision variables, Microsoft included 40-bit floating point support instead of BASIC-80's 32-bit floating point and string allocation was dynamic (thus the user did not have to reserve string space like in BASIC-80). However, vendors could still
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and expanded in size to just under 8K for the single precision version, or 9K for a version using an intermediate 40-bit floating point format in place of the original 32-bit version. This new 40-bit format became the most common as it was used on most 6502-based machines of the era. It was also
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The core command set and syntax are the same in all implementations of
Microsoft BASIC and, generally speaking, a program can be run on any version if it does not use hardware-specific features or double precision numbers (not supported in some implementations).
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There were no string variables in 4K BASIC and single-precision 32-bit floating point was the only numeric type supported. Variable names consisted of one letter (A–Z) or one letter followed by one digit (0–9), thus allowing up to 286 numeric variables.
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craze of the late-1970s and early-1980s, BASIC was ported to and supplied with many home computer designs. Slight variations to add support for machine-specific functions, especially graphics, led to a profusion of related designs like
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Only supported variable types are character string, single precision floating point, and 16-bit signed integer (saves space in arrays, otherwise useless and slower than floating point, as all calculations are done in floating point
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said, "Microsoft BASIC had hundreds of thousands of users around the world. How are you going to argue with that?" Microsoft licensed similar versions to companies that competed with each other. After licensing
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was available for them at least since 1979. One source claims that a special NCR 7200 model variant with two 8-inch diskettes and
Microsoft BASIC existed and was imported by NCR Sydney into Australia the
369:. String variables were denoted with a $ suffix, which remained in later versions of the language. Later on, Microsoft released the 12K Extended BASIC, which included double precision 64-bit variables,
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in 1977. 6502 BASIC included certain features from
Extended BASIC such as user-defined functions and descriptive error messages, but omitted other features like double precision variables and the
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portable computer, which has two
Hitachi 6301 CPUs, which are essentially a "souped up" 6801. Most of the core features in BASIC-68 and BASIC-69 were copied directly from BASIC-80.
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but the BASIC for the 99/4 was developed in-house." TI-99/4 BASIC was based on
Dartmouth BASIC and complies to the American National Standard for minimal BASIC (ANSI X3.60-1978).
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keyword. A modified version published later by OS provider
Logical Systems, in the LS-DOS Version 6.3 update, added single-letter access to BASIC control functions (like
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6502 BASIC lacked a standardized set of commands for disk and printer output; these were up to the vendor to add and varied widely with each implementation.
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Receive) Teletype as terminal, paper tape reader, and paper tape punch
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and server-based applications. Most .NET code samples are presented in VB.NET as well as C#, and VB.NET continues to be favored by former Visual Basic
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Commodore BASIC had the following:
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were already released in 1975-11, but did not came with BASIC.)
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Curran, Lawrence J.; Shuford, Richard S. (November 1983).
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1044:, a very different BASIC created by
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602:(FAT) was a BASIC adaptation for an
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1800:Small Basic Getting Started Guide
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1200:(TRS-80 Color Computer)Canon X-07
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1076:No variety of Microsoft BASIC (
1060:Microsoft produced a ROM-based
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128:high-level programming language
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1704:Microsoft BASIC Compiler 1980
1588:Cherry, Charles (June 1987).
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1744:"MICROSOFT Software Catalog"
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1833:Graduating from Small Basic
1413:An Open Letter to Hobbyists
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765:Dynamic string allocation.
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2416:Open Programming Language
1620:. 1987-01-13. p. 325
1537:. Doubleday. p. 61.
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1208:Disk Extended Color BASIC
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1778:Small Basic 1.0 is here!
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1531:Manes, Stephen (1993).
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241:Microsoft Binary Format
2853:MS BASIC for Macintosh
2637:Visual Basic (classic)
1947:TI-BASIC (calculators)
1886:programming language (
1789:Small Basic Curriculum
1370:Video Technology Basic
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574:. Also available for
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1981:Rocky Mountain BASIC
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367:string concatenation
235:convinced them that
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2778:Benton Harbor BASIC
1996:Locomotive Software
1811:Small Basic E-Books
1509:Martin S. Fridson,
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58:First appeared
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1170:(Apple II family)
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1094:Microsoft Windows
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516:Extended BASIC-80
466:Personal Computer
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