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They didn't invent the language. BASIC was already a popular language for beginners on microcomputers at that time.
by SoftTalker 6mo ago
They didn't invent the language. BASIC was already a popular language for beginners on microcomputers at that time.
- bitwize 6mo agoMicrosoft itself popularized BASIC on microcomputers with its 8080 BASIC, starting on the Altair and ported to everything with A, B, C, D, E, H, and L registers since. Before then, however, BASIC was already popular on minicomputers as both an introductory language for beginners and a business language; the various "Business BASIC" dialects providing a small-business alternative to COBOL on mainframes with their features for decimal math and ISAM database access.