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| | Encyclopedia: Dartmouth BASIC |
 | | Dartmouth BASIC is the original version of the BASIC programming language. | | | It was designed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz as part of the Dartmouth Time Sharing System (DTSS) and was the one of the first programming languages intended to be used interactively. | | | It is so-called because it was designed and implemented at Dartmouth College. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Dartmouth-BASIC
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| | BASIC programming language: Information From Answers.com |
| | BASIC was intended to address the complexity issues of older languages with a new language designed specifically for the new class of users the time-sharing systems allowed — that is, a "simpler" user who was not as interested in speed as in simply being able to use the machine. | | | BASIC was designed to allow students to write programs using time-sharing computer terminals. | | | This applies as well to other "old" computer languages like COBOL and FORTRAN, although the BASIC movement is by far the largest; this may be explained by the large number of IT professionals who cut their teeth on BASIC programming during the home computer era in the 1980s. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/basic-programming-language
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| | EduWiki: BASIC Programming Language |
| | BASIC was created to assist the user who was not concerned with analyzing the hardware and worrying about the speed of the computer, but simply for the user who wanted to use the computer. | | | Microsoft began promoting the BASIC language and by 1979, a version of BASIC was included on the IBM ROM chip, and any computer that didn’t have a hard disk automatically booted into BASIC. | | | The BASIC computer language was much smaller in size than it’s competitors, which made it perfect for the Altair as well as the other microcomputers that were being developed at the time. |
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http://tnc.bsa.kent.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BASIC_Programming_Language
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| | People - DTSS - Dartmouth Time Sharing System |
| | Dartmouth acquired its first computer in 1959, a very small computer called the LGP-30. | | | Kemeny noted, "We at Dartmouth envisaged the possibility of millions of people writing their own computer programs." (Man and the Computer, p. | | | He had great fun, he wrote, "learning to program a computer, even though the language used at that time was designed for machines and not for human beings." (Man and The Computer, New York, 1972, p. |
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http://www.dtss.org/people2.php
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| | The History of BASIC |
| | BASIC (standing for Beginner’s All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was a way for students to write and execute programs on the General Electric GE255 mainframe that was the center of the Dartmouth computer system. | | | Kemeny and T. Kurtz at Dartmouth College began working on a language that was to be a simple subset of FORTRAN, but it soon became evident that the result was going to be an entirely new programming language. | | | , 1964, two programs written in BASIC were ran at the same time on a time shared system at the college, creating a milestone for the language, and for the concept of time-shared computing in general. |
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http://j.students.umkc.edu/jdcb72/cs441/history.html
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| | dev/real - programers resource |
| | BASIC was originally designed for Dartmouth's experimental {time-sharing} system and has since become the leading cause of brain-damage in proto-hackers. | | | BASIC was originally named Basic, simply because it was a simple and basic programming language. | | | A programming language, originally designed for Dartmouth's experimental timesharing system in the early 1960s, which for many years was the leading cause of brain damage in proto-hackers. |
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http://www.centerforinnerhealth.com/words/b/BASIC.html
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| | Charts |
| | General Electric, which built Dartmouth’s computer, quit making computers and sold its computer factory to Honeywell. | | | In traditional BASIC and FORTRAN, the only way to make the computer perform a loop is to say GO TO or FOR or DO. | | | All those versions of BASIC were written for computers that contained an 8080 or Z-80 CPU. |
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http://secretguide2pcs.tripod.com/Strange-tongues.htm
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| | The Dartmouth Online |
| | The BASIC computing language went on to become the most widely used computing language in the world, bringing computer technology to the general public. | | | Unlike the languages from which it was descended, FORTRAN and AGOL, BASIC used common sense commands, including PRINT, SAVE and RUN, which allowed users to more easily develop their own programs. | | | The Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, an innovation of Dartmouth mathematics professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz, was launched 40 years ago Saturday. |
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http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2004042901050
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| | BASIC computer language turns 40 |
| | On May 1, 1964, the BASIC computer programing language was born and for the first time computers were taken out of the lab and brought into the community. | | | BASIC was born in an age when computers were large, expensive and the exclusive province of scientists, many of whom were forced to buy research time on the nation's handful of machines. | | | The popularity of BASIC waned as computers got more sophisticated, and newer languages were developed to take advantage of the power. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1127904/posts
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| | Bringing Up BASIC |
| | True BASIC will be produced to fit into the major personal computers that have a reasonable amount of memory (128K or more), and it will be identical for all machines. | | | Schoolbook authors will be able to write in True BASIC and have their programs run on all the major personal computers. | | | Teachers can assign exercises without worrying about which computers are currently in the computer lab. |
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http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/basic.php
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| | Basic Programming and Chipmunk Basic Home Page |
| | Chipmunk Basic was featured in the Programming Paradigms column of the December 1995 issue of Dr. | | | A large collection of Classic Basic programs including BASIC Computer Games by David Ahl. | | | Emulate an old computer which ran Basic on a PowerMac (e.g. |
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http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic
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| | Thomas E. Kurtz - History of Computer Programming Languages |
| | BASIC was invented at Dartmouth College in 1964 to give students a simple programming language that was easy-to-learn. | | | Kurtz is currently a professor emeritus at Dartmouth. | | | Tom Kurtz was the most senior and distinguished faculty member, primary founder, force, and spirit behind the Computer and Information Science Masters program at Dartmouth. |
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http://cis-alumni.org/TKurtz.html
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| | What is BASIC? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary |
| | Developed by John Kemeney and Thomas Kurtz in the mid 1960s at Dartmouth College, BASIC is one of the earliest and simplest high-level programming languages. | | | Practical Computer Applications: Visual Basic - Offer applications that work on Windows desktops, work the same way over the Internet, have PDA capabilities, and are scalable to large organizations. | | | There is an ANSI standard for the BASIC language, but most versions of BASIC include many proprietary extensions. |
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http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/BASIC.html
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| | Timeline: BASIC to Visual Basic .NET |
| | Commodore BASIC (developed by Microsoft) for the Commodore PET computer. | | | General Electric ships the fifth version of (Dartmouth) BASIC with their systems. | | | In a typical PC there is 4K's of memory, so then 2K's of memory will be free for the program itself. |
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http://addressof.com/blog/articles/VBTimeline.aspx
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| | Basic hits 40 - Computerworld |
| | Kemeny, who later became president of Dartmouth and died in 1992, and Kurtz were the authors of Basic, which Kurtz said went on to be the most widely used computer language in the world. | | | Basic ran on the Dartmouth Time Sharing System, a network of multiple simple terminals connected to a large computer, Kurtz explained. | | | "The development of Basic was a natural step in a whole progression of computer activities that began when I arrived at Dartmouth in 1956," he said. |
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http://www.computerworld.com/news/2004/story/0,11280,92795,00.html
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| | Introduction - DTSS - Dartmouth Time Sharing System |
| | This system ran on two computers, a GE-235 to execute programs (such as ones written in BASIC) and a GE DN-30 (Datanet-30) to handle communications (to and from teletypes) and to schedule the execution of programs on the 235. | | | The biggest problem we faced during the first year was to find listings of the original software. | | | Steve took the listings for the key software components and the manuals, and scanned them on a CD in several formats, including pdf. |
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http://dtss.org
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| | RSTS-11-92 BASIC: Dartmouth BASIC to BASIC-PLUS Text Editor, Version: June 1976 |
| | Abstract: This program makes a program written in Dartmouth BASIC runnable on a system that uses BASIC-PLUS. | | | The user can, in most cases, replace Dartmouth functions, which have no BASIC-PLUS equivalent, by a few lines of coding or a user defined function. | | | RSTS-11-92 BASIC: Dartmouth BASIC to BASIC-PLUS Text Editor, Version: June 1976 |
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http://pdp-11.trailing-edge.com/rsts11/rsts-11-092
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| | TrueBasic |
| | In 1983 they created True BASIC to incorporate and showcase all the advanced developments they had added to their language, and offered it as a commercial product. | | | Can line-numbered programs be run on True BASIC? | | | They made it freely available to everyone who wanted to learn how to program computers. |
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http://www.truebasic.com
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| | Basic |
| | AMOS - is an advanced BASIC for the Amiga computer. | | | Business Basic - is an interactive programming language developed for mini-computer systems in the early 1970s. | | | Derived from the original Dartmouth Basic, Business Basic extended the language concepts by introducing file indexing methods which evolved into true keyed access technology similar to those methods available to COBOL programmers. |
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http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/6121/basic.html
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| | BASIC |
| | professors Kemeny and Kurtz wrote the language BASIC in 1964 with features taken from Fortran and ALGOL. | | | Dartmouth BASIC with easy data access, sprinkled with Pascal. | | | The clearly superior DataBASIC result is not to be confused with Gates/Allen BASIC, also mid-70’s. |
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http://www.tincat-group.com/SOFAcards/Multivalue_Overview/BASIC.htm
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| | Dartmouth BASIC |
| | A term for the original BASIC by Kemeny & Kurtz. |
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http://people.ku.edu/~nkinners/LangList/Langs/D/Dartmouth,BASIC.htm
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