Re: What specs would your Apple ][ clone have today?

["bieling@terra.es" <bieling@terra.es>]

On Mar 30, 6:52 am, "sicklittlemonkey" <Nick.Westg...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> ...
> Also in ROM was BBC Basic, which was said by Acorn to be "certainly
> the fastest interpreted BASIC in the world". The basic was mostly
> backward compatible with BBC Micro Basic, except that the built-in
> 6502 assembler was replaced with an ARM assembler. It was powerful
> enough to implement full GUI applications. Still a hobbyists machine,
> but with real grunt.
> ...
> Imagine what Apple could have done in this vein, and perhaps more
> importantly what they would have been able to if they hadn't been
> constrained by a Microsoft licensed basic.ilds it. ;-)
> ...
> Cheers,
> Nick.

I think that BBC's Basic is a marvelous gem : <http://
www.bbcbasic.co.uk>,
and the BBC computers themselves too.
The Apple II stands quite well compared to the BBC's 6502 computers,
unlike this Micro-Soft's (P.O.C.) Applesoft thing that made its way
into it... :-(

(AppleSoft predates BBC's Basic by several years, though)

Jorge.