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BASIC stands for Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code and was developed around 1963/64 at Dartmouth College. Over the next 10 years it was ported to most of the mini and mainframe computers. | BASIC stands for Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code and was developed around 1963/64 at Dartmouth College. Over the next 10 years it was ported to most of the mini and mainframe computers. | ||
In 1975 a very snot-nosed Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed a version of Basic to run on the new [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800 Altair 8800 home computer] This was the birth of Micro Soft and set Bill Gates out on his entrepreneurial career. The genius however was Paul Allen, who simulated the whole program on a minicomputer - | In 1975 a very snot-nosed Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed a version of Basic to run on the new [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800 Altair 8800 home computer] This was the birth of Micro Soft and set Bill Gates out on his entrepreneurial career. The genius however was Paul Allen, who simulated the whole 8080 assembly language program on a minicomputer - without ever having touched an Intel 8080 microprocessor system - however this is a digression. | ||
Our version of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_BASIC Tiny Basic] hails from 1976, when members of the Homebrew Computer Club of Menlo Park - in Northern California's Silicon Valley were looking around for a simple and compact interpreted language that would run on their homemade Altair 8800 machines - and did not want to pay the young entrepreneur William Gates $150 for his version of 8080 Basic. So a challenge went out to the members to write their own - and several did, the most notable was Tom Pittman. | Our version of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_BASIC Tiny Basic] hails from 1976, when members of the Homebrew Computer Club of Menlo Park - in Northern California's Silicon Valley were looking around for a simple and compact interpreted language that would run on their homemade Altair 8800 machines - and did not want to pay the young entrepreneur William Gates $150 for his version of 8080 Basic. So a challenge went out to the members to write their own - and several did, the most notable was Tom Pittman. | ||
