"R.Nicholson" <rhnlogic@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:5d3988b0-f0ee-475e-9e30-5071a087d39b@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> The article says that at 4 a.m. on May 1st, 1964, Kemeny and Kurtz ran
> their first BASIC program on Dartmouth college's General Electric
> GE-225
> mainframe.
>
> (Thankfully, they continued program language development beyond
> their Dartmouth Oversimplified Programming Experiment , or this
> group might have had the much less desirable name: comp.lang.DOPE :)
Yay! Happy Birthday, BASIC! You're aging well. I remember when BASIC
was just a year old. (Not many people outside of Dartmouth knew it before
that)
It had escaped Dartmouth and was at GE and HP and was already starting to
evolve. Who knew it would end up being found on so many computers?
Tom Lake
--
Q: If a Binary digIT is a BIT, what's a Trinary digIT?
A: It's a TRIT, you dirty ol' man!
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