[PLUG] Closest Linux BASIC to "Darthmouth BASIC"

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Sat Feb 27 06:40:18 UTC 2021


FYI, this is a nice video about the history of the Dartmouth Time
Sharing System and BASIC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYPNjSoDrqw

My former employer was a Dartmouth graduate from that approximate era,
though he wasn't involved in the computer systems to my knowledge. I
recall forwarding the video to him previously. Of course, the best
part of the video is the occasional shots of the teletype machines.
;-)

On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 4:17 PM Russell Senior
<russell at personaltelco.net> wrote:
>
> The Internet being a big place with many niche interest groups, I
> would have expected there to be a retro-computing or ancient-BASIC
> group that would have better answers than we are likely to. Wikipedia
> is likely to be a good starting place too.
>
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 1:47 AM Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> wrote:
> >
> > On 02/26/2021 02:21 AM, Russell Senior wrote:
> > > I'm not sure why you are asking on PLUG.
> >
> > Basically {no pun intended} because this group tends to answer the
> > question actually asked. On debian-user I had asked which of the BASICs
> > in the repository was closest to Dartmouth BASIC I was told not to even
> > consider using any Basic.
> >
> > > I googled, like a person would.
> > >
> > > https://www.dartmouth.edu/basicfifty/basic.html
> > >
> > > When I asked for context, it was really to try to pin down what you
> > > were looking for. Dartmouth Basic came in a bunch of versions,
> > > including a commercialization called TrueBasic
> > > http://www.truebasic.com/.
> > >
> > > Is there some version in particular you are looking for? It is quite
> > > possible there is an old big-iron simulator you could run some
> > > original version on, complete with DTSS. ... and 30 seconds more
> > > looking: http://www.dtss.org/dtss/
> > >
> > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 12:06 AM Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On 02/25/2021 06:42 PM, Russell Senior wrote:
> > >>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 2:55 PM Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I need approximation of "Dartmouth BASIC".
> > >>>
> > >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_BASIC
> > >>>
> > >>> More context please.
> > >>
> > >> 'Cause it is what I want. <GRIN>
> > >> Actually it's the only BASIC I ever used and it is a good match for a
> > >> peculiar project.
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>>> Please don't reply unless CORC, CUPL, or 026 in your experience.
> > >>>
> > >>> Too late!
> > >>>
> > >>    That was only there to discourage youngsters trying to sell me on the
> > >> latest interpreter du jour :}
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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