Re: Who wrote AppleSoft BASIC

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Arthur D. Jerijian (jerijian@cloudburst.seas.ucla.edu) wrote:
: Hi,

: 	I need to know what company wrote the AppleSoft BASIC software for
: the Apple ][ line of computers.  Was it Apple or was it Microsoft?
: 	Thanks.

Micro$oft owns the copyright on BASIC in general.  The copyright on the
Applesoft ROM in the ][ lists both Microsoft and Apple.

Applesoft is a heavily customized version of Microsoft BASIC.  At first
glance, I'd say Apple licensed Microsoft BASIC, then used it to write
their own version, better known as Applesoft.

This is a guess.  But I'm pretty sure the Applesoft code came from Apple,
not from Microsoft, in spite of the Microsoft copyright inside every Apple ][.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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