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Microsoft Basic Interpreter 1984

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Microsoft BASIC Interpreter for Apple Macintosh is Microsoft Corporation's manual for its BASIC interpreter on the Macintosh, © Microsoft Corporation 1984, document number 690410003-210-R01-0985. The text is numbered to about p. 310, with the index from p. 307; the scan has 312 PDF pages, ending with Microsoft's Software Problem Report form.[1]

Chapters 1 to 6 explain how to use the interpreter on the Macintosh, with a practice session, and chapter 7 is the language reference, with a directory of every statement and function. The manual assumes the reader has already worked through the Macintosh owner's guide.[1]

Contents

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  1. Introduction: Special Language Features (2); Learning More About BASIC and the Macintosh (5)
  2. Getting Started: Practice Session With Microsoft BASIC (8)
  3. Using the Microsoft BASIC Interpreter (23): Choosing Between the Two Versions of Microsoft BASIC; Starting and Quitting; Loading and Saving Programs; Operating Modes; The Microsoft BASIC Screen (26), with the Command, Output and List windows and the menu bar
  4. Editing and Debugging Your Programs (33)
  5. Working With Files and Devices (39): file naming, generalized device I/O, sequential and random-access data files, transferring data between BASIC and other programs (55)
  6. Advanced Topics (59): subprograms, event trapping (66), memory management
  7. BASIC Reference (75): character set, the BASIC line, constants, variables, expressions and operators, Statement and Function Directory (92)

Appendices: A ASCII Character Codes (273); B Error Codes and Error Messages (275); C Microsoft BASIC Reserved Words (281); D Internal Representation of Numbers (283); E Mathematical Functions (287); F Access to Macintosh ROM Routines (289); G A Sample Program (301); H Questions Most Frequently Asked (303); Index (307).[1]

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Download: Microsoft_Basic_Interpreter_1984.pdf (17 MB)

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft BASIC Interpreter for Apple Macintosh, 1984. Title and copyright pages (PDF pp. 2-3), contents (PDF p. 4), introduction p. 1, Software Problem Report (PDF pp. 309-312).
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