Subj : BASIC origins
To   : Vince Coen
From : Andy Ball
Date : Sun Mar 16 2008 02:17 pm


Hello Vince,

 ASB> Although Microsoft have made some popular BASIC
    > interpreters and compilers, they did not invent it

  VC> Microsoft did What?

Note my use of "not" above ;-)

  VC> I was using Basic on a ICL 2900 in the early 70's.

I haven't seen an ICL box in years.

  VC> Dammed if I remember why but Basic was created as
    > "Dartmouth Basic" and it may not have been the first
    > but was the 1st that I knew about.

   That probably was the original BASIC (it's an acronym,
so should be rendered in caps).  I think Kemeny and Kurtz were at Dartmouth
college (in the U.S, nothing to do with the Royal Navy) when they created it.

- Andy Ball

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