wiktionarypar basicBasic may refer to Computing BASIC , a computer programming language Basic access authentication in HTTP Visual Basic , a computer programming language Visual Basic .NET , a computer programming language based on the .NET Framework Other BASIC countries , Brasil, South Africa, India and China in climate change negotiations Basic cigarette , a brand of cigarettes manufactured by the Altria Group Philip Morris Company Basic chemistry , having the properties of a base Basic dance move , the dance move that defines the character of a particular dance Basic film Basic film , a 2003 film by John McTiernan and starring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson Basic Instinct , a 1992 erotic thriller by Paul Verhoeven , starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone Basic Robert Quine and Fred Maher album Basic Robert Quine and Fred Maher album , 1984 Basic Glen Campbell album Basic Glen Campbell album , 1978 Languages in Star Wars Basic the common intergalactic language Basic , the common intergalactic language in Star Wars British American Security Information Council See also Base disambiguation Bassic Swedish musician and composer Martin Lindhe disambig de Basic Begriffskl rung fr Basic ko it Basic ja simple Basic ... more details
Infobox software name BASIC A logo screenshot caption developer Optimized Systems Software Release date 1983 latest release version latest release date operating system Atari 8 bit family Atari 400 800 XL XE Media floppy disk genre BASIC programming language BASIC license Copyright 1983 Optimized Systems Software Proprietary software Proprietary BASIC A was developed by Optimized Systems Software of Cupertino, California , USA , to provide the Atari 8 bit family with an extended BASIC programming language BASIC compatible with, but faster than, the simpler read only memory ROM based Atari BASIC . While Atari BASIC came on an 8 kilobyte KB ROM cartridge, BASIC A was delivered on floppy disk and took 15 KB of the computer s RAM, leaving 23 KB available for user programs in a 48 KB Atari 800. BASIC A was offered at a price of US 80.00 in 1983, including the products OS A and EASMD Editor Assembler , and being an extension of Atari BASIC, came with a supplement to the latter s reference manual as its documentation. In addition to being faster than its ROM bound counterpart, BASIC A provided a number of extra commands for DOS operations, sprite computer graphics player missile graphics, and debugging . See also Turbo Basic XL External links http www.atarimagazines.com v2n2 productreviews.html BASIC A product review &ndash by Richard E. DeVore, in ANTIC Vol.2, No.2, May 1983 DEFAULTSORT Basic A Category BASIC interpreters Category Optimized Systems Software de BASIC A es BASIC A it BASIC A ... more details
About the programming language other uses Basic disambiguation Infobox programming language paradigm ... logo File AtariBasicExample.png frameless caption Screenshot of Atari BASIC , an early BASIC language ... Eugene Kurtz developer latest release version latest release date typing implementations Apple BASIC , Atari BASIC , Commodore BASIC , Microsoft BASIC , Liberty BASIC , BBC BASIC , TI BASIC dialects influenced by ALGOL 60 , Fortran FORTRAN II , JOSS influenced COMAL , Visual Basic , Visual Basic .NET , Realbasic , GRASS programming language GRASS BASIC is a family of General purpose programming language ... BASIC was designed in 1964 by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College ... into the firmware of the machine. BASIC remains popular to this day in a handful of highly modified programming language dialect dialect s and new languages influenced by BASIC such as Microsoft Visual Basic . In 2006, 59 of developers for the .NET Framework used Visual Basic .NET as their only programming ... Basic programs to Linux Mono brings Visual Basic programs to Linux , LinuxDevices, 20 February 2007 ... s was an area of intense research during the 1960s and 70s. Origin main Dartmouth BASIC The original BASIC language was designed in 1964 by John George Kemeny John Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz Thomas ... B BASIC.html BASIC , The Jargon File ref BASIC was designed to allow students to write programs for the Dartmouth .... Initially, BASIC concentrated on supporting straightforward mathematical work, with matrix math matrix .... In the following years, as other dialects of BASIC appeared, Kemeny and Kurtz s original BASIC dialect became known as Dartmouth BASIC . Spread on minicomputers As a result of its free availability, knowledge of BASIC became relatively widespread for a computer language and BASIC was implemented ... Equipment Corporation DEC Programmed Data Processor PDP series and the Data General Nova . The BASIC language was also central to the HP Time Shared BASIC system in the late 1960s and early 1970s ... more details
Basic programming may refer to Premium television Basic programming Basic television programming , the set of channels included in basic subscription to satellite or cable television Programming in one of the BASIC programming languages BASIC Programming , cartridge for the Atari 2600 console, released in 1979 disambig ... more details
Basic Training may refer to Basic Training , a 1971 American documentary directed by Frederick Wiseman Basic Training 1985 film Basic Training 1985 film , an American sex comedy Recruit training disambiguation ... more details
Business Basic is the name given collectively to variants of the BASIC computer programming language which were specialised for business use on minicomputers in the 1970s and 1980s. Business Basics added indexed file access methods to the normal set of BASIC commands, and were optimised for other input output access, especially computer terminal display terminal control. The two major families of Business Basic are MAI Basic Four , and Data General Business Basic . In the 1980s, Business Basics were ported from their original proprietary environments to many Unix platforms, and to DOS . In the 1990s, some Business Basics were ported to Linux and Microsoft Windows Windows , and Business Basic integrated development environment s became available. Business Basic continues to be widely used due to the very large base of application software. See also Applesoft BASIC Apple Business BASIC Apple Business BASIC Apple AlphaBasic Alpha Microsystems , AMOS B32 Business Basic Data General Eclipse MV, UNIX, MS DOS BBx BBj Rexon Dartmouth BASIC see also True BASIC Data General Business Basic Data General Nova and later DG minicomputers Hewlett Packard Business Basic HP 3000 minicomputers MAI Basic Four ProvideX Thoroughbred BASIC Production BASIC http probasic.sourceforge.net My Business Basic http sourceforge.net projects mybusinessbasic External links http www.bbpro.org The Business Basic Page b Business Basic Business Basic at Wikibooks http www.transoft.com products ubl Transoft s Universal Business Language http sourceforge.net projects mybusinessbasic An open source Business Basic http www.bbpro.org faq.htm Business Basic FAQ http www.basis.com BASIS International Ltd. http www.thoroughbredsoftware.com Thoroughbred Software International Inc. Category BASIC programming language family de Business Basic pl Business Basic ... more details
sources date February 2009 Deleted image removed Image NES G BASIC.JPG thumb 200px A screenshot of the Mega Kid MK 1000 Computer type Famiclone, running a simple BASIC program G BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language designed for the Nintendo Entertainment System NES . See also Famicom BASIC BASIC Category Nintendo Entertainment System Category BASIC interpreters nintendo stub compu lang stub videogame software stub pl G BASIC ... more details
merge BasicX Cache Basic CBASIC Chipmunk Basic discuss Talk BASIC 11 Merge Suggestion date June 2011 Chipmunk Basic is a freeware version of the BASIC programming language maintained by developer Ron Nicholson . Chipmunk basic was originally developed for the Apple Macintosh and has been ported to Linux and Microsoft Windows Windows . The windowed Macintosh version includes a wide variety of graphics drawing commands. It also has object oriented capabilities. The current version of Chipmunk Basic and its spinoff products for Palm OS , cBasPad and HotPaw BASIC was based on a public domain, Pascal programming language Pascal implementation by http www.synaptics.com people daveg David Gillespie , author of the Pascal translation tool p2c . External links http www.nicholson.com rhn basic Ron s Basic Programming and Chipmunk Basic Home Page http www.nicholson.com rhn files basic.shar.Z public domain source code for the original Chipmunk Basic compu lang stub BASIC Category BASIC interpreters Category Free compilers and interpreters nl Chipmunk Basic ja Chipmunk Basic pt Chipmunk Basic ... more details
notability date October 2011 merge BasicX Cache Basic CBASIC Chipmunk Basic discuss Talk BASIC 11 Merge Suggestion date June 2011 Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Cach Basic is an object oriented scripting language designed for development of web based database applications. Developers familiar with Visual Basic will not find it too difficult to develop applications using Cach Basic. Cach Basic is integrated with Cach Objects and supports object, relational, and multidimensional access to data. Cach Basic is compatible with Cach s other scripting language, Cach ObjectScript . Like Cach ObjectScript code, Basic code is compiled into object code, which is interpreted by a virtual machine. The definition of the Cach Basic is based on VBScript , plus language elements necessary to communicate with the database layer of Cach software Cach . See also Cach ObjectScript DEFAULTSORT Cache Basic Category BASIC programming language family Compu lang stub ... more details
unref date February 2010 Tiger BASIC is an easy to use high speed multitasking BASIC dialect List of BASIC dialects to program microcontroller s of the BASIC Tiger family. Tiger BASIC and the integrated development environment which goes with it, were developed by Wilke Technology Aachen , Germany . External links http www.wilke.de index.php Wilke Technology Category BASIC programming language Category Embedded systems ... more details
Expand Russian MobileBASIC date September 2011 Mobile BASIC is a proprietary dialect of the BASIC programming language BASIC programming language that can be used to program Java platform Java enabled mobile phone s. This is possible because the Interpreter computing interpreter is a MIDlet . External links http www.mobilebasic.com Mobile Phone Programming Home to the Mobile BASIC Java midlet. Category Java device platform Category Mobile telecommunications software Category BASIC interpreters compu lang stub ru MobileBASIC ... more details
There are a number of treaties known as the Basic Treaty Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea June 22, 1965 The Basic Treaty of 1972 in common usage stands for the Treaty concerning the basis of relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic . European Basic Treaty Bilateral Basic Treaty between Russia and Romania July 4, 2003 . disambiguation ... more details
In technical drawing , a basic dimension is a theoretically exact dimension, given from a datum to a feature of interest. In Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing , basic dimensions are used to communicate the critical design dimensions of a part. Basic dimensions represent an ideal case and as such, have no tolerance. To facilitate manufactureability, a feature control frame is often used to assign a manufacturing tolerance to a basic dimension. Basic dimension are denoted by enclosing the number of the dimension in a rectangle . References ASME Y14.5M 1994 Dimensioning and Tolerancing engineering stub Category Technical drawing ... more details
About the Borland version of Turbo Basic the dialect of BASIC programming language BASIC for the Atari 8 bit family Turbo Basic XL File Turbobasic11 00.png thumb Turbo Basic 1.1 1987 startup screen. Turbo Basic is a BASIC programming language BASIC compiler and dialect originally created by Robert Bob Zale and bought from him by Borland . When Borland decided to stop publishing it, Zale bought it back from them, renamed it to PowerBASIC and set up PowerBASIC Inc. to continue support and development of it. This software is from the 1987 1988 period and features the Borland black screen similar to Turbo Pascal 4.0, Turbo C 1.0 1.5, and Turbo Prolog 1.1. Borland did not adopt its trademark blue screen integrated development environment until the 1989 period when Turbo C 2.0, Turbo C 1.1, etc. were released. By this time, Turbo Basic and Turbo Prolog were no longer being sold. Unlike most BASIC implementations of this period, Turbo Basic was a full compiler which generated native code for MS ... development environment could run a BASIC program internally for traditional BASIC debugging ... systems without the Turbo Basic product or runtime libraries. Code example File Turbobasic11 01.png thumb Turbo Basic 1.1 editing the example code, in the zoomed editor window. File Turbobasic11 02.png thumb Turbo Basic 1.1 running the example in the multiple window IDE. The following program is an example of the ALGOL like BASIC dialect that Turbo Basic supported. Unlike traditional BASIC, which ... BASIC dialects starting at this period were extended to make the language compatible with modern ... refs BASIC Category Articles with example BASIC code Category DOS software Category BASIC compilers Category Borland software ca Turbo Basic cs Turbo BASIC es Turbo BASIC fr Turbo Basic id Turbo Basic it Turbo Basic nl TurboBASIC ja Turbo Basic pl Turbo Basic ru Turbo Basic fi Turbo Basic zh Turbo BASIC ... more details
HP BASIC can refer to Rocky Mountain BASIC Created at HP, now transferred to Agilent HP 9000 and other platforms often used with HP IB instruments HP BASIC for OpenVMS Created at DEC, now transferred to HP PDP, VAX, and VMS platforms disambig ... more details
Basic Latin may refer to C0 controls and basic Latin , a Unicode block It may also refer to ASCII , the US variant of 7 bit encoding system ISO basic Latin alphabet ISO IEC 646 , an early 7 bit encoding system See also Latin characters in Unicode disambig ... more details
Gnome Basic GB was a software project whose goal was to provide Visual Basic compatible functionality for the GNOME project. Compatible functionality with Microsoft Office s Visual Basic for Applications was considered especially important. The project has since been discontinued, and apparently never went beyond the development stage. The Mono software Mono project, which implements VB.NET , largely supersedes it. Image Gnome basic.jpeg thumb right Gnome Basic. See also Hbasic Gambas External links http www.gnome.org projects gb Gnome Basic project Category GNOME Category BASIC programming language family Category Discontinued BASICs prog lang stub ... more details
notability date July 2011 unreferenced date July 2011 infobox programming language name Vilnius Basic logo paradigm imperative programming imperative , algorithmic programming algorithmic year 1986 designer ? developer ? latest release version ? latest release date ? typing ? implementations ? dialects BASIC 86, BASIC 88 influenced by MSX BASIC influenced None operating system license website Image Basic Vilnus.png thumb 256px Vilnius BASIC on BK 0010 01 Vilnius BASIC was a dialect of the BASIC programming language running on the Elektronika Elektronika BK 0010 BK 0010 01 BK 0011M and UKNC computers. It was a quite advanced BASIC and featured a runtime threaded code compiler that compiled the program when one entered the code RUN code command. The dialect was very close to MSX BASIC . The major differences were the lack of the code PLAY code , code SOUND code , code VPOKE code and code PUT SPRITE code operators, the inability to open several files at the same time, and the inability to use more than one operator on one line. Only the UKNC version had a full screen editor. Machine dependent features, like graphics operators parameters and code PEEK POKE code addresses were also different. The software was developed at Vilnius University , located in Lithuania which was a republic of the Soviet Union at the time. Trivia Vilnius BASIC uses the infamous RANDU random number generator See also Wikibooks Programming BASIC List of BASIC dialects List of BASIC dialects by platform External links http www.homecomputer.de pages easteurope ussr.html HCM The HomeComputer Museum about Vilnius BASIC . ru icon . ., . ., . ., . . 0010 01 . http bk0010.narod.ru docs bk prog.html Programming for BK 0010 01 . BASIC Category BASIC programming ... languages created in the 1980s BASIC, Vilnius Category Discontinued BASICs Vilnius prog lang stub ru vi Vilnius BASIC ... more details
IBM Basic full name The IBM Personal Computer Basic is a programming language first released by IBM with the IBM ... BASIC interpreter computing interpreter , licensed from Microsoft for the IBM Personal Computer PC and IBM PCjr PCjr . They are known as Cassette BASIC, Disk BASIC, Advanced BASIC BASICA , and Cartridge BASIC. Versions of Disk BASIC and Advanced BASIC were included with IBM PC DOS up to PC DOS 4. In addition to the features of an ANSI standard BASIC , the IBM versions offered support for the graphics ... of the Microsoft BASIC compiler for the PC, concurrently with the release of PC DOS 1.1 in 1982. Cassette Basic Infobox programming language name IBM Cassette BASIC logo Image IBM Cassette BASIC.png 200px IBM Cassette BASIC 1.10 paradigm year 1981 designer developer Microsoft for IBM latest ... BASIC, IBM BASICA, GW BASIC current version operating system license website IBM Cassette BASIC came ... PC, and did not require an operating system to run. Cassette BASIC provided the default user interface ... floppy disk at power on. The name Cassette BASIC came from its use of cassette tape s rather than floppy disks to store programs and data. GW BASIC is the standalone, compatible successor to IBM Cassette BASIC, which does not require ROM to run. Cassette BASIC was built into the ROMs of the original ... access memory RAM , which was sufficient to run Cassette BASIC. However, Cassette BASIC was rarely ... RAM to at least run Disk BASIC many could run Advanced BASIC as well. IBM Disk Basic Infobox programming language name IBM Disk BASIC logo Image IBM Disk BASIC.png 200px IBM Disk BASIC 1.10 paradigm ... dialects influenced by IBM Cassette BASIC influenced IBM BASICA, GW BASIC current version operating system license website IBM Disk BASIC BASIC.COM was included in the original IBM PC DOS and required 32 KB of RAM, DOS and the 32 KB Cassette BASIC ROM to run. The name Disk BASIC came from ... corrected errata in the ROM resident code and added floppy disk and serial port support. GW BASIC is a completely ... more details
Basic Atom refers to a line of products from http www.basicmicro.com Basic Micro . Like the Basic stamp , the Basic Atom line is based upon various microchips pre programmed with an interpreter, making it easy to change programs , as they are only data being interpreted. A compiler converts a high level language into the interpretive code which is then loaded in as data, and run. The product line consists of Basic Atom Basic Stamp 2 compatible devices, claiming faster execution Basic Atom Nano , a series of pre programmed chips for those that want to integrate the functionality into other products without adding other boards Basic Atom Pro , a line of higher capacity devices. Board level products, such as for robotic control, etc. Accessories such as power supplies. Basic Atom chips may be added to other projects via the familiar Dual in line package style, or the higher density TQFP . One small Basic Atom Pro is implemented as a Single in line package thus taking very little area on a board, at the expense of some height. Category BASIC interpreters ... more details
Law unref date November 2007 The term basic law is used in some places as an alternative to constitution , implying it is a temporary but necessary measure without formal enactment of constitution. A basic law is either a codified constitution , or in countries with uncodified constitution s, a law given to have constitution powers and effect. The name is usually used to imply an interim or transitory nature, or avoid attempting a claim to being the highest law , often for religious reasons. In West Germany the term Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany basic law Grundgesetz was used to indicate that the basic law was provisional until the ultimate reunification of Germany . When Germany was reunified in 1990, no new constitution was adopted and instead the basic law was adopted throughout the entire German territory. Basic law is entrenched in that it overrides ordinary statute law passed by the legislature. The special administrative region People s Republic of China special administrative region s of the People s Republic of China , namely Hong Kong and Macau , have basic laws as their constitutional documents. The basic laws are the highest authority, respectively, in the regions, while the rights of amendment and interpretation rest with the Standing Committee of the National People s Congress Standing Committee of the National People s Congress of the People s Republic of China . List of basic laws Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany Hong Kong Basic Law Basic Laws of Israel Macau Basic Law Basic Law of Saudi Arabia Palestinian National Covenant The Basic Law For the Palestinian National Authority See also Constitution Constitutionalism Constitutional economics Rule according to higher law Fundamental Law Fundamental laws of England DEFAULTSORT Basic Law Category Constitutional law de Liste von Grundgesetzen ja nl Basiswet zh ... more details
Infobox VG title Family BASIC image Image Family Basic box art and contents.JPG 250px Family Basic box art and contents developer Nintendo with Hudson Soft and Sharp Corporation publisher Nintendo producer engine released June 21, 1984 genre BASICBasic Programming modes Create, Play, Load and Save ratings platforms Nintendo Entertainment System Family Computer media cartridge requirements Famicom Data Recorder or any cassette tape player with headphone and mic plugs. input Keyboard, standard controller Family BASIC or Famicom BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language that is used to program the Nintendo Entertainment System Family Computer , its cartridge came with a computer style ... textbook and the Family Basic Keyboard, the software was released to consumers in Japan ... version, with added memory, and features known as Family Basic V3 release on February 21, 1985. Several ... Mario and Donkey Kong games circa 1984 1985 , were made available as basic Family Basic development parts, or have appeared in pre made Family Basic games. Game creating and saving Image Family Basic input, output, and batterery cover.JPG left 175px Family Basic input, output, and batterery cover Programs ... with Family Basic because both the disk system s RAM adapter and the Family Basic cartridge need to be inserted ... In WarioWare, Inc. Mega Microgames , one of 9 Volt s Minigames involves the Famicom Basic keyboard ..., and 3.0 were. V.3.0 had a few tweaks and already created games were included. See also G BASIC External links http www.nindb.net game family basic.html Family BASIC at http www.nindb.net NinDB http www.atkinsoft.com familybasic.html Famicom BASIC Token Lists for V2 and V3 dead link date March 2011 dead link BASIC DEFAULTSORT Family Basic Category Nintendo Entertainment System Category Video game creation software Category BASIC interpreters nintendo stub compu lang stub fr Family BASIC ja pt Family BASIC fi Famicom BASIC sv Famicom Basic ... more details
refimprove date August 2011 Infobox programming language name Microsoft BASIC year 1975 cf. Altair BASIC designer Microsoft developer Microsoft latest release version cf. Visual Basic .NET latest release ... license website file ext Microsoft BASIC was the foundation product of the Microsoft company. It first appeared in 1975 as Altair BASIC , which was the first BASIC programming language BASIC , and the first ... . Altair BASIC and early microcomputers The Altair BASIC interpreter computer software interpreter ... and Sons, 1999 ISBN 047133202X pages 116 120 ref The dialect of BASIC was similar to Digital Equipment Corporation interpreters, especially in string operations, which varied between BASIC implementations. BASIC used dynamically allocated strings which stored their size. Early BASIC only supported single letter and digit names, but Microsoft BASIC supported long variable names. Only two characters ... was then generalized into BASIC 80 8080 85, Zilog Z80 Z80 , and ported into BASIC 68 Motorola 6800 6800 , BASIC 69 Motorola 6809 6809 , and MOS Technology 6502 BASIC unfortunately spilling over to 9 Kilobyte KB , in an era when 8 KB ROM chips were standard , as well as the 16 bit BASIC 86 Intel ... BASIC, Microsoft BASIC became the basis for a lucrative software licensing business, being ported ... the 1980s, and extended along the way. Contrary to the original Altair BASIC, most home computer ... of BASIC constituted a significant and visible part of the user interface of many home computers rudimentary operating system s. Modern descendants Microsoft BASIC Microsoft BASICA BASICA , GW BASIC ... of Microsoft BASIC is Visual Basic .NET which incorporates most of the features of C and C Sharp ... continues to be favored by former Visual Basic programmers. Variants and derivatives of Microsoft BASIC Altair BASIC MITS Altair and other S 100 computers AmigaBASIC Amiga BASIC Commodore Amiga family Applesoft BASIC Apple II family Atari Microsoft BASIC I and II Atari 8 bit family Microsoft BASICA ... more details
Unreferenced date May 2010 Beta BASIC was a BASIC programming language BASIC Interpreter computing interpreter ..., which was one of the main fora of the time for advanced Spectrum BASIC programmers. Originally it started as a BASIC toolkit but over time it grew into an interpreter in its own right. Image Screenshot ... resident program, completely replacing Sinclair BASIC . As with most micros of the 1980s, the Spectrum s BASIC interpreter was also its operating system, providing the command line interface CLI ... and controlling the computer. Facilities Beta BASIC provided a new and improved CLI and editor. It supported Sinclair s idiosyncratic single key entry system for BASIC keywords but also allowed keywords ... BASIC keywords. However, the single key entry system was also extended by mapping the Spectrum s graphics characters to Beta BASIC s new keywords. To switch from keyword entry to typed entry, it was merely ... optionally automatically prettyprint code. It was possible to do this manually in Sinclair BASIC ... Beta BASIC a much more productive environment even for coding standard Sinclair BASIC and making no use of BetaSoft s language additions. Beta BASIC was also a BASIC interpreter in its own right, completely ... in Beta BASIC itself, either because the ROM routines were good enough or for reasons of space Beta BASIC had to run in the meagre 48 kilobyte KB of memory available on a Spectrum and still leave room for the user s code. Language changes For its time, Beta BASIC was astonishingly sophisticated ... more sophisticated 16 bit computers a decade later. On the 128K Spectrum machines, Beta BASIC provided ... or screen images into the RAM disc and catalogue the contents of the RAM disk, Beta BASIC also provided ... any other 8 bit BASIC, which were generally limited to 64 KB of program and data combined. New functionality Beta BASIC also drove the Spectrum s 256x192 pixel display directly, eliminating the restrictions of the ROM s 32 column text display. Beta BASIC offered scalable screen fonts, with a special ... more details
NorthStar BASIC was a dialect of BASIC originally provided for use on the NorthStar Horizon and NorthStar Advantage . The interpreter was written using only Intel 8080 instructions so that it could run also on custom systems. ref name infoworld Richard Milewski, http books.google.com books?id DT4EAAAAMBAJ&pg PA16 Micro Mike s baZic release 1 , Infoworld , April 27, 1981 ref One notable difference with other dialects of BASIC of the time was the array like way in which strings were addressed. ref name lien David A. Lien, The BASIC Handbook Compusoft Pub., 1981 ref For example A 13,17 in NorthStar BASIC corresponded to MID A ,13,5 in other dialects. This string addressing technique is analogous to the one used in Fortran , and was also used in HP 3000 Basic and Atari BASIC . Strings were allocated 10 bytes maximum length unless DIMensioned otherwise. ref name manual http itelsoft.com.au north star manuals North Star BASIC Version 6.pdf North Star BASIC version 6 manual, p. 10, North Star Corporation, Inc. 1977 ref It was still possible to use arrays of strings, but these were declared in two or more dimensions, for example DIM B 10,50 created 11 strings 0 10 of maximum length 50 bytes. Input from the keyboard and output to the console and printers were treated in the same way as reading and writing to data files. Some other differences were that POKE became FILL , PEEK became EXAM , and INSTR became MATCH . ref name lien ref Some other dialects of BASIC were created which were based on and inspired by NorthStar BASIC, such as Bazic a rewrite of North Star BASIC taking advantage of the faster Zilog Z80 instructions ref name infoworld ref and Megabasic . Some of these were available for other hardware and operating systems, including Unix , CP M and DOS . references External links http maben.homeip.net static S100 northstar software North 20Star 20BASIC 20Version 205 20Manual.pdf NorthStar BASIC manual DEFAULTSORT Northstar Basic Category BASIC programming language family ... more details
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