Re: Evil Conspiracy!

["Ron Hamilton" <oldatarian@atariland.com>]

Atari Basic was also one of those which skipped any further statements on
the same line whenever an IF-THEN was not executed.

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"Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Was NorthStar Basic a derivation of Microsoft Basic? It was in very wide
use
> on S100 machines back around 1980. I seem to remember that Byte Magazine
> published a lot of programs in it. Fortunately I had purchased a BASIC
> cross-reference that listed the variations in different flavors and could
> translate them all to Applesoft. Usually the biggest change required was
> IF-THEN statements, because Applesoft skips the entire line if it is false
> and pretty much all other Basics just skip the IF-THEN statement and
execute
> the rest of the line.