Re: Evil Conspiracy!

["Mo" <mygranny-nospam-@swbell-nospam-.net>]

Just a small point- Atari BASIC did support string arrays. The
incompatability was in the fact that Atari used ATASCII while everyone else
used ASCII. Also it featured alot of additional graphics and sound features.
Atari did release Microsoft BASIC and Microsoft BASIC2 under the Atari
packaging. These proclaimed themselves to be more compatable with TRS-80
BASIC (not quite though). For more info check out comp.sys.atari.8bit

Mo


Scott Alfter wrote in message ...
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>In article <3C47178B.7050905@coli.uni-sb.de>,
>Linards Ticmanis  <ticmanis@coli.uni-sb.de> wrote:
>>Dan wrote:
>>> Microsoft made Applesoft Basic!?!?
>>
>>Well, unfortunately the answer is YES...

>There are a few more BASICs that weren't derived from Microsoft BASIC.
>Atari had its own BASIC; the biggest difference that I recall was that it
>didn't support arrays of strings