Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Quadibloc
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 13:58

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On Friday, June 1, 2018 at 7:33:18 AM UTC-6, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
> On 01/06/2018 14:14, Scott Lurndal wrote:

> > Basic (not an acronym) was also available in 1974 on the mainframe at UWEC.  We also
> > had ALGOL.
> > 
> 
> BASIC (an acronym) is Beginner's All Purpose
Symbolic
> Instruction Code

FTFY

John Savard

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