Re: Apple lle and BASIC

["winston19842005@yahoo.com" <winston19842005@yahoo.com>]

On Mar 26, 9:45 pm, Steve Nickolas
<lyricalnan...@usotsuki.hoshinet.org> wrote:
> Replying to myself - got my citation.
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> On Sat, 26 Mar 2011, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> > On Sat, 26 Mar 2011, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
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> >> Steve Nickolas wrote:
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> >>> 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.
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> >> 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?
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> > That's what I was led to believe, at any rate.
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> > -uso.
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> http://www.laughton.com/Apple/Apple.html
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> "The Basic problem was fixed a short time later, when Apple canceled the
> Apple Annie project and the Basic contract. We at Shepardson did not mind.
> Atari wanted us to write a Basic for their new Atari 800 computer. That is
> another story....."
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> links tohttp://www.laughton.com/paul/abps/oss/oss.html
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That was interesting reading!