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Well...not so much that second to last sentence. Yes, they had the same MS-Basic core, but each manufacturer added additional features (and took away some as we
by jhbadger 7y ago
Well...not so much that second to last sentence. Yes, they had the same MS-Basic core, but each manufacturer added additional features (and took away some as well), so that a BASIC program from a C64 couldn't run on an Atari or an Apple without some serious rewriting.
- simonh 7y agoThose sorts of features mostly only mattered for games, but even at that time Microsoft was mainly aiming at business users and business programs, and licensing value added features such as the MS Basic compiler.