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Re: RAM Applesoft found!
- Subject: Re: RAM Applesoft found!
- From: HansO <msxhans@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 19:07:15 +0100
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de> wrote:
>By the way... I noted that Applesoft is already mentioned in the "Red
>Book", the first Apple II manual that can be called a manual. So it must
>be a really early product. Did Apple themselves arrange for its
>publication, or was it launched by Microsoft? I wonder where, when and
>by whom was the decision taken to drop Integer BASIC in favor of the
>Microsoft code base?
A great find. Upload it please :) Or send it to me!
Applesoft was created by Microsoft on request of Apple. Its a bit different from
the other early Microsoft 6502 interpreters like the KIM-1 9 digit Basic or the
PET Commodore or Ohio Scientific Basic versions. I assume on request of Apple.
Integer Basic versus Applesoft? Must have been users dropping Integer Basic.
Hans, http://www.hansotten.com