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Distressingly likely. It's easy to overlook the fact that Microsoft had considerable dominance in BASIC implementations even before the IBM PC took off, with se
by 0xcde4c3db 9y ago
Distressingly likely. It's easy to overlook the fact that Microsoft had considerable dominance in BASIC implementations even before the IBM PC took off, with several major vendors shipping a rebranded version of Microsoft BASIC in ROM (Commodore BASIC, Tandy TRS/Color BASIC, Applesoft BASIC), and others selling it as an add-on package (e.g. Atari Microsoft BASIC). They probably would have gotten a foothold operating systems one way or another once multitasking became a big deal.
- quincunx 9y agoJust for completeness, AmigaBASIC, which came standard with the OS, is also one of these BASICs that were written by Microsoft.
- wott 9y agoOn Thomson computers also, it was "BASIC MICROSOFT 1.0" as standard 'OS', provided as cartridge on TO7 and included as ROM on MO5 (and later, on TO8), if I am not mistaken.