[geeks] [rescue] BASIC

[Dave Fischer]

nate at portents.com writes:

>No experience with that in particular, but this reminds me of something
>I've been wondering lately... is there any measure of the impact of BASIC
>on computing?  The reason I ask is that it wasn't until recently that I
>realized that Wang 2200 series ran a microcoded interpreted BASIC
>(dialects such as Wang BASIC and BASIC-2), which other companies have
>since developed compilers for... I was rather shocked at the idea of
>microcoding an interpreted language into a computer.

I believe MAI BASIC-4 minicomputers did something similar.

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