Timeline for Why was IBM BASIC so Huge?
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| Jan 7, 2020 at 17:01 | comment | added | scruss | I've found The BASIC Handbook useful for this, but you have to do the feature xreffing yourself. Applesoft's its own special hybrid of early MS + whatever Apple was thinking at the time. BBC BASIC is very different: nominally specced to be compatible with MBASIC of the time, its non-core features diverged quickly from any other BASIC | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 16:50 | comment | added | Brian H | Good point. I wish there was a reference to a more definitive breakdown comparing it with the better 6502 BASICs, such as 16K CBM BASIC v7, 16K BBC BASIC, or Applesoft. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 16:08 | history | answered | supercat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |