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From: cbdougla@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Collin Broad Douglas)
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Subject: Re: GS Basic  (was:Re: GS Sound (was:Re: Stellar 7 re-release)_)
Message-ID: <1990Dec18.015105.14948@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 18 Dec 90 01:51:05 GMT
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In article <10193@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
 writes:
>
>In article <1990Dec17.212732.12062@hoss.unl.edu> greg@hoss.unl.edu (Hammer 
T. H.) writes:
>>Am I the only one who knew about GS BASIC?  It was an actual BASIC for the
>>IIgs, which I believe has been discontinued.
>
>	I guess I'm too much into high level languages nowadays (C mainly),
>but I'd have no use for GS Basic.. or any other BASIC that wasn't in ROM.
>That's the nice thing about AppleSoft.. it's ALWAYS there..
>
>	If I spend my time booting up and compiling (it is a compiled
>BASIC isn't it?) a BASIC program, I might as well do it in C or something
>like that.
>-- 
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   actually, it was an interpreted BASIC.  It was kinda nice though and it
supported the toolbox.  TML Basic was compatible with GS Basic I think.
you could take programs in GS basic and import them in to TML BASIC and 
compile them.  GS Basic was nice though.

       Collin Douglas

cbdougla@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu

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