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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 02/25/2021 06:42 PM, Russell Senior wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 2:55 PM Richard Owlett <[email protected]> 
> >>> 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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