Re: BASIC Turns 60

MS (and others?) butchered BASIC[0] to fit into 8-bitters.  The result
was that nearly everyone started to call a TinyBASIC just BASIC because
they did not know the original.

That was BASIC's main problem.

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[0]: Dartmouth BASIC
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_BASIC

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