wdc (07/21/82)
Subject: More info on BASIC I investigated the BASIC under UNIX path for a school which was finally convinced to run UNIX rather than RSTS when we put BASIC on it and handed them a running UNIX system. The BASIC from Human Computing Resources costs about $800 dollars and, on an 11/34 without floating point is SLOW SLOW SLOW. The RSTS compatable BASIC from Johns Hopkins was for Version 6 only. It was allegedly made to run for V7 by someone whose name I forgot on purpose. The reason I forgot his name was that, when I spoke to him, he knew nothing of the magic some consultants did for him to make it work and he was not in a position to help my installation make the changes. A Collegue of mine here at CCC has a BASIC that acts like the BASIC Apple ]['s run. I have yet to make it run on anything other than an 11/45 with floating point. It seems to have trouble on machines without floating point hardware. Contact mitccc!jfw for more info. I hope that this was some help. BASIC on a UNIX is a pain to get, and once you have it is never works as well as C, but sometimes it is a feature that the customer MUST have... Oh well. William Cattey wdc at CCC @MIT-MC (arpa) ...!physics!ccc!wdc (uucp)