Re: DOS 3.3 BASICS Image

[Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com>]

pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) writes:
> Quite true -- Applesoft remained at all times the Apple II version of
> the 6502 version of Microsoft MBasic version 2.

Yes, but it did receive at least one minor revision.  The Apple II+
ROM version didn't accept lower case keywords, while some of the later
models did.

> On the Apple /// though, Applesoft was revised heavily, and renamed
> to "Apple Business Basic".  I believe Apple, not Microsoft, made these
> modifications to Applesoft for the Apple ///.

They weren't modifications to Applesoft.  Apple started with a clean
slate.  Apple /// Business Basic was written by Don Denman, who also
wrote the unreleased MacBASIC (a victim of blackmail by Microsoft).