23 Jun
2025
23 Jun
'25
11:33 p.m.
On 2025-06-23 10:02 p.m., Steve Lewis via cctalk wrote:
Speaking of Microsoft BASIC's - I suppose none of the Altair offerings were
really "boot to BASIC" (maybe you could rig it to auto-load from the paper
tape). In the microcomputer domain, does the PET remain really as the
first boot to BASIC system? (and fairly full featured, with floating point
and trig functions)
Altair was still a home-brew system, with what ever you had on the S100
bus.With no standard I/O one had to patch BASIC.Did CP/M have a BASIC?
I always thought the apple II was first.
-Steve
Ben.