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3 unusual facts about Dartmouth BASIC


Berkeley Timesharing System

Other timesharing systems were generally one-of-a-kind systems, or limited to a single application (such as teaching Dartmouth BASIC).

Dartmouth BASIC

However on May 1, 1964 at 4 a.m. ET, John Kemeny and John McGeachie ran the first BASIC programs to be executed successfully from terminals by the DTSS system.

HP BASIC for OpenVMS

HP BASIC has many FORTRAN-like extensions, as well as supporting the original Dartmouth BASIC matrix operators.



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