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Re: Apple lle and BASIC
- Subject: Re: Apple lle and BASIC
- From: "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:58:12 -0700
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Steve Nickolas wrote:
I'm led to understand that Atari BASIC is essentially a rewrite of
Wozniak's BASIC. (Shares an author with DOS 3.3, as I recall!) It does
have microsoftisms though.
That's interesting... Could this be the "Floating point BASIC"
commisioned by Apple and then cancelled in favor of a Microsoft
port--perhaps then completed for Atari?
-michael
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