On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 5:19 AM Bill Degnan via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote:
> It is not too hard to imagine a professional programmer who took a copy of > Dartmouth BASIC and adapted it for this flavor of BASIC, but I personally > dont have any reference docs about it or proof. > [...] > so it may > simply be MINICAL BASIC would have been just as easy for a period > programmer to whip up from scratch. > The latter seems far more likely. From what little is known about it, the MINCAL architecture is apparently very dissimilar to the GE-225/235/265 or GE-635, e.g. the MINCAL being a BCD machine, so I'd expect it would have been much easier to write a new BASIC interpreter for the MINCAL from scratch than to adapt it from actual Dartmouth BASIC. Are there any known actual "ports" of Dartmouth BASIC to non-GE/Honeywell machines, as opposed to scratch reimplementations?
