SuperBASIC

SuperBASIC is an advanced variant of the <a href="/facts/BASIC_programming_language/VYMl5TmA">BASIC programming language</a> with many <a href="/facts/Structured_programming/zA8b8dP1">structured programming</a> additions. It was developed at <a href="/facts/Sinclair_Research/yrpr4FGp">Sinclair Research</a> by <a href="/facts/Jan_Jones_(novelist)/48vHADy5">Jan Jones</a> during the early 1980s. 
Originally SuperBASIC was intended as the <a href="/facts/BASIC_interpreter/AbVeR56f">BASIC interpreter</a> for a <a href="/facts/Home_computer/CDEPVd1T">home computer</a> code-named SuperSpectrum, then under development. This project was later cancelled; however, SuperBASIC was subsequently included in the <a href="/facts/Read-only_memory/P9QMuDLH">ROM</a> <a href="/facts/Firmware/62UVKIUK">firmware</a> of the <a href="/facts/Sinclair_QL/Dn5dIVkR">Sinclair QL</a> <a href="/facts/Microcomputer/ETW22UTv">microcomputer</a> (announced in January 1984), also serving as the <a href="/facts/Command_line_interpreter/R9JpGmXQ">command line interpreter</a> for the QL's <a href="/facts/Sinclair_QDOS/2100FJPw">QDOS</a> <a href="/facts/Operating_system/8XTuvMh2">operating system</a>.
It was one of the first <a href="/facts/BASIC_programming_language/VYMl5TmA">second-generation BASICs</a> to be integrated into a microcomputer's operating system (unlike <a href="/facts/BBC_BASIC/7N5Pjzoe">BBC BASIC</a> which preceded it in 1981), making the OS user-extendable—as done by <a href="/facts/Linus_Torvalds/EdDKP534">Linus Torvalds</a> in his formative years.

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SuperBASIC