Business Basic
Business Basic is a category of variants of the
Business Basics added indexed file access methods to the normal set of BASIC commands, and were optimised for other input/output access, especially display terminal control. The two major families of Business Basic are Basic/Four and Data General Business Basic. In addition, the Point 4 company, which developed the IRIS operating system, had their own version of BASIC. The UniBASIC owned by Dynamic Concepts of Irvine is a derivative of the Point 4 BASIC.
In the 1980s, Business Basics were ported from their original proprietary environments to many Unix platforms, CP/M, and to DOS. In the 1990s, some Business Basics were ported to Linux and Windows, and Business Basic integrated development environments became available. Notably, in 1990 MAI's version was ported from their BOSS operating system to become the multi-platform Open BASIC.
Business Basic continues to be widely used due to the very large base of application software.
See also
- Apple Business BASIC (Apple ///)
- AlphaBasic (Alpha Microsystems, AMOS)
- B32 Business Basic (Data General Eclipse MV, UNIX, MS-DOS)
- Rexon
- Dartmouth BASIC (see also True BASIC)
- ProvideX
- Thoroughbred Software International, Inc., Business Basic, Solution IV Accounting; IDOL, IDOL-IV, Open Workshop
- BBx, now known as (visual) PRO/5 and its Java-running counterpart BBj, both edited by Basis Intl [2]
References
- ^ Answers.com https://web.archive.org/web/20070701060836/http://www.answers.com/topic/mai-systems-corporation?cat=biz-fin. Archived from the original on July 1, 2007. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
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