Timeline for Would some BASIC interpreters for microcomputers be considered operating systems?
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| Oct 17, 2023 at 0:24 | comment | added | dan04 | While BASIC came on cartridge form on the original Atari 400/800, the later XL modules had it built-in. | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 16:38 | comment | added | dave | That was the second system I used. PUFFT (Perdue University Fast Fortran Translator) running under IBSYS on the 7094 at Imperial College -- hand-punched card decks sent by Post Office mail from my high school. | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 10:45 | comment | added | Walter Mitty | The first computer program I ever ran was a homework assignment for my first programming course. It was run under some kind of job control system, possibly IBSYS, for the 7090. | |
| Aug 2, 2020 at 20:44 | comment | added | dave | The 709 Fortran Monitor System is generally considered to be an operating system, and it doesn't seem like it's a greater level of complexity or modularity that your average micro BASIC. As I understand it (I'm not as old as that), the compiler essentially was a bare-metal compiler, and FMS just wrapped some basic job sequencing around that. | |
| Aug 2, 2020 at 17:36 | history | answered | Will Hartung | CC BY-SA 4.0 |