Talk:MacBASIC

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I just authored this stub on MacBASIC, and would like to help in making this a real article. I think MacBASIC is noteworthy because it was one of the earliest and well-publicized examples of Microsoft's ability to dominate the computer business. Any feedback on what parts of this language and software development environment are noteworthy would be appreciated.

I don't know how to do references to books, so I just did a link to an Amazon search inside. Can someone point me to a better way? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kimdonndenman (talk • contribs) 06:46, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I changed the format of the cite to be template:cite book. Couldn't find a better URL, but it is not necessary, so I left it to point to Amazon. hub (talk) 17:19, 13 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Macintosh BASIC vs MS BASIC

The article claim BYTE benchmarked it.

The primary source https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-04/ doesn't have any such benchmark. Only absolute timings. hub (talk) 15:54, 13 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This seems to be a long-running citation error, going back to a Usenet post from 1984. The article comparing the two interpreters was in Washington Apple Pi (journal), May 1984, but uses code (Sieve, 8190) from the April 1984 BYTE article. In emulation, I've confirmed that the better results from Macintosh BASIC vs MS BASIC are repeatable. I will update the article --scruss (talk) 19:18, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Name

Everywhere I look the name in "Macintosh BASIC" and not "Mac BASIC". hub (talk) 17:20, 13 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]