[net.general] More BASIC info

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)