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Article #623608Re: The birth of BASIC
From: Alan Bowler
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 16:57
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 16:57
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On 2018-06-01 6:21 PM, Quadibloc wrote: > On Friday, June 1, 2018 at 3:09:44 PM UTC-6, Sarr Blumson wrote: > >> And, to kick one of my favorite dead horses, Dartmouth BASIC was >> NOT an interpreter. It compiled to real machine code. Other >> implementations varied. > > Yes, that's quite true, it was, I presume, one of those "load-and-go" compiler > systems; quite a few of those had already been written for FORTRAN by that time. > > But _after_ Dartmouth BASIC, nearly all the other implementations were > interpreters. BASIC under GECOS TSS on the 635 was a compiler. Actually, today it STILL IS although the machines with that architecture are called DPS-9000, and GECOS renamed GCOS8. However, it is essentially the same BASIC as the Dartmouth implementation under DTSS on the 635.
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