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In 1979, I made a program called VisiBase in this BASIC. It's a visual database modeled after VisiCalc. That won me a joystick in at a competition by the local computer store. :-) Still have the source, that works in an Apple 2 emulator. It's 13 K in ASCII (untokenized).
Maybe Apple can finally release MacBasic now that Microsoft can no longer stop licensing their Basic to the Apple II family.
Do you think computing history would have been much different if Microsoft made a 6502 Pascal interpreter instead?
Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45118392 - Sept 2025 (198 comments)
Related ongoing thread:
Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253386 - May 2026 (110 comments)
I doubt the .gitignore, README.md, and SECURITY.md files were created 49 years ago, as the GitHub repo indicates :D