I would hope it runs something other than BASIC. BASIC is a terrible language, and the only reason it became popular is that there was a book published with a lot of games written in that language. People buying a home computer wanted games, and the commercial game market was initially nonexistent, so people wanted a computer with BASIC, since then they assumed they could play those games. The designers of this new c…
Err no it wasn't because of a book! Its because most of the early machines had basic and normally the ones by Microsoft. You might not know that is where Microsoft made its initial $
Most of the early machines had BASIC because of the book and the rising desire for BASIC. Also, the reason Microsoft made it initial money selling a BASIC interpreter for the ALTAIR is because people wanted BASIC, again mostly because of the book.