Replying to myself - got my citation. On Sat, 26 Mar 2011, Steve Nickolas wrote:
On Sat, 26 Mar 2011, Michael J. Mahon wrote: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?That's what I was led to believe, at any rate. -uso.
http://www.laughton.com/Apple/Apple.html"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....."
links to http://www.laughton.com/paul/abps/oss/oss.html -uso.