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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 86. Chapters: BASIC compilers, BASIC interpreters, Discontinued BASICs, QuickBASIC, GW-BASIC, IBM BASICA, True BASIC, PureBasic, PowerBASIC, Blitz BASIC, Liberty BASIC, Tiny BASIC, Yabasic, XBasic, ScriptBasic, BASIC09, Turbo Basic, Phoenix Object Basic, Atari BASIC, Visual Basic, TI-BASIC, Commodore BASIC, UBASIC, FreeBASIC, Dartmouth BASIC, FutureBASIC, Sinclair BASIC, IBM System/36 BASIC, DarkBASIC Professional, Beta BASIC, GFA BASIC, QBasic, Integer BASIC, John George Kemeny, GLBasic, HP BASIC for OpenVMS, AmigaBASIC, REALbasic, MSX BASIC, STOS BASIC, Southampton BASIC System, NS Basic, XBLite, Gambas, Rocky Mountain BASIC, BASIC-PLUS, Galaksija BASIC, Locomotive BASIC, TI BASIC, ProvideX, QB64, SBASIC, BASIC Stamp, Basic4GL, IBM Disk BASIC, Mallard BASIC, Atari ST BASIC, Data General Business Basic, Thomas Eugene Kurtz, Just BASIC, Run BASIC, PBASIC, Brutus2D, Family BASIC, ZBasic, CBASIC, TI Extended BASIC, B32 Business Basic, Amsterdam Compiler Kit, Creative Basic, Vilnius BASIC, MacBASIC, Turbo-Basic XL, MAI Basic Four, BASIC A+, IBM Cassette BASIC, Basic-256, SdlBasic, ARM express, SuperBASIC, Blitz Research, BASIC Atom, Multi-user BASIC, DragonBASIC, AlphaBasic, Chipmunk Basic, BasicX, Gnome Basic, PSX Chipmunk BASIC, THEOS Multi-User Basic, BASIC-11, Mobile BASIC, Tymshare SuperBasic, G-BASIC, Tiger-BASIC. Excerpt: Atari BASIC is a BASIC interpreter for the Atari 8-bit family of 6502-based home computers. The interpreter originally shipped on an 8 KB cartridge; on later XL/XE model computers it was built in, with an option to disable it, and started when the machines were booted with no other cartridges in place. The complete commented source code and design specifications of Atari BASIC were published as a book in 1983. This marked the first time source code was made available for a commercial language. The output of ...