SUPER BASIC

SUPER BASIC, sometimes SBASIC for short, is an advanced dialect of the <a href="/facts/BASIC_programming_language/VYMl5TmA">BASIC programming language</a> offered on <a href="/facts/Tymshare/r0kX2qjs">Tymshare</a>'s <a href="/facts/SDS_940/sXGtoKny">SDS 940</a> systems starting in 1968 and available well into the 1970s.
Like the <a href="/facts/Dartmouth_BASIC/DY1M2BmI">Dartmouth BASIC</a> it was based on, SUPER BASIC was a <a href="/facts/Compile_and_go/Bw2okmCz">compile and go</a> language, as opposed to an <a href="/facts/BASIC_interpreter/AbVeR56f">interpreter</a>. In addition to offering most of the commands and functions from Dartmouth BASIC Version 4, in including matrix math commands, SUPER BASIC also included a number of features from the seminal <a href="/facts/JOSS/GXAbsQHY">JOSS</a> language developed at <a href="/facts/Rand_Corporation/zArfRxf9">Rand Corporation</a>, via Tymshare's version, <a href="/facts/CAL_/lmxI5Nw6">CAL</a>, and added a variety of new functions, <a href="/facts/Complex_number/2w7mqI7e">complex numbers</a> as a built-in type, and <a href="/facts/Double_precision/JYyXXYFM">double precision</a> support.
SUPER BASIC also greatly improved <a href="/facts/String_(computer_science)/4ChJu5WS">string</a> handling over the rudimentary system in Dartmouth, introducing the LEFT, MID and RIGHT string functions, simple <a href="/facts/String_concatenation/1npYg6rc">string concatenation</a> and other features. These were later used in <a href="/facts/Digital_Equipment_Corp/ztxs6keA">DEC</a>'s <a href="/facts/BASIC-PLUS/WGBBVyoK">BASIC-PLUS</a>, which was later used as the basis for the original <a href="/facts/Microsoft_BASIC/SuctFIyc">Microsoft BASIC</a> that saw widespread use in the 1980s.

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SUPER BASIC