Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Quadibloc
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 07:11

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On Thursday, May 31, 2018 at 3:11:01 PM UTC-6, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
> On 30 May 2018 01:00:36 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> > Nice program.  I particularly like the way they briefly mention
> > Bill Gates only to point out that they were there first.

> The first to commercialize on BASIC.

I presume it was "only to point out that (Kemeny and Kurtz) were first (instead 
of Bill Gates)" that he meant.

It's true the CINET Basic for the PDP-8 was a free program, although it was 
built from DEC's FOCAL, so you needed a FOCAL license to be permitted to order 
it from DECUS.

However, BASIC for the Honeywell 316 and 516 came with a price tag, IIRC. And 
there was CALL/360 BASIC from IBM, and I think Tymshare had BASIC... so I don't 
think Microsoft was the first to charge money for a BASIC interpreter.

John Savard

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