[geeks] [rescue] BASIC

[Lionel Peterson]

I "think" BASIC was as close to the hardware as you could get, but I'm  
not sure.

Lionel

On Aug 4, 2009, at 2:52 PM, Dave Fischer <dave at cca.org> wrote:

> lionel4287 at gmail.com writes:
>
>> On Aug 4, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Dave Fischer <dave at cca.org> wrote:
>
>>> I believe MAI BASIC-4 minicomputers did something similar.
>
>> Hey! I used one of those, until my HS burned down and three stories  
>> of
>> classrooms buried it when they fell down...
>
> I never used one, but spent a lot of time with someone who made
> their living programming them for a long time. They had BASIC
> at the lowest level? Not exactly sure what that means - something
> like AS/400's, where the user isn't really supposed to know
> what happens below it, or something like a p-code machine? Or
> the BASIC version of a Lisp Machine? Hard to find info on them.
>
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