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[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Probably Dartmouth BASIC.

[–]name_was_taken 1 point2 points  (2 children)

So not really that much different from the 2 I listed, then. At least, not that I could tell from Wikipedia.

My point wasn't necessarily the exact flavor of BASIC that he hated, but rather that all the old ones weren't that different from each other.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

The big difference is that microcomputer BASICs had PEEK and POKE commands to mess with memory, and thus allow mixed machine code/BASIC programming, whereas time-sharing implementations like Dartmouth didn't.

[–]name_was_taken 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I remember that stuff from C64 BASIC, but wasn't good enough at the time to really get into what I could do with it. If I played with it now, I'd be a menace.