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 :} > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > >> PLUG mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
