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BASIC had to work on tiny chips and not fill the entire ROM and RAM by itself. Probably that’s the reason. Later basics (Quick, Turbo) worked as “IDEs”. As a s
by wruza 4y ago
BASIC had to work on tiny chips and not fill the entire ROM and RAM by itself. Probably that’s the reason. Later basics (Quick, Turbo) worked as “IDEs”.
As a side note, neither early DOS nor CP/M had a full screen editor either, afair iirc. Edlin (poor man’s ed) is my earliest memory, which was a line-oriented editor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edlin
- scarface74 4y agoI didn’t realize that the “Edit” program didn’t come with DOS until 1991
- ForOldHack 4y agoEdit came with DOS, but it was a handler for QuickBasic. Hence the EDIT was the quickbasic ide with no basic.
- lucas_membrane 4y agoChips? When BASIC came out, chips were all in the chip box. Memory was magnetic donuts, and large scale integration wasn't until 1970.
- ForOldHack 4y agoAs a user that started in late 1970, and used mini computers with core memory, I am going to have to confirm this. Chips came in a bag w/ fish.
- ForOldHack 4y agoROM Basic 1.0 supported full screen editing, you just had to hit return on the edited line. (circa 1981 ). I think that BASICA did also, but I need to check.