> I have no idea what Apple's MacBasic was like This was already apparent. Microsoft BASIC for Mac was a lowest common denominator sort of product. It did th

> I have no idea what Apple's MacBasic was like This was already apparent. Microsoft BASIC for Mac was a lowest common denominator sort of product. It did the sorts of things BASIC could do on any platform fairly well (since most platforms ran a Microsoft BASIC variant), but it did an incredibly poor job of allowing a user to write programs that worked as if they were designed for a Mac.