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From: weave@chopin.udel.edu (Ken Weaverling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Mac Basic c.1984 (was Re: When will mac to do multitasking?)
Summary: Microsoft Basic v 1.0 sucked
Message-ID: <17107@chopin.udel.edu>
Date: 11 May 91 19:17:00 GMT
References: <1991May3.035637.4446@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <811@newave.UUCP> <1991May8.190544.26692@santra.uucp>
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In article <1991May8.190544.26692@santra.uucp> 
    jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) writes:
>
>This reminds me of Macintosh Basic (by Apple). I wish I had kept a copy
>somewhere. I think the story of that program is that Microsoft didn't
>want it to be released, so it wasn't...

What a mistake that was. Back when there were NO programming tools for the
Mac around (had to have a Lisa).  I eagerly awaited BASIC. Apple's BASIC
got squashed, so we were stuck with Microsoft BASIC 1.0 -- an almost 
verbatim port from MS/DOS Basic. Even had to type in LOAD "filename" 

(Well, there was an Open command under File menu, but it poped up a dialog box
with a single TextEdit line to enter the file name. If you wanted to see
what files there were on disk, had to enter the command FILES)

Apple killing MacBasic was a major disappointment. Just another example
of Microsoft blackmailing. I hope the FTC breaks MS up...
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>>>---> Ken Weaverling  >>>---->  weave@brahms.udel.edu