Tymshare SuperBasic
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- This article is about TymshareTymshareTymshare, Inc. was headquartered in Cupertino, California from 1964 to 1984.It was a well-known timesharing service and third-party hardware maintenance company throughout its history and competed with companies such as Four Phase, Compuserve, and Digital Equipment Corporation...
's SuperBASIC system. SuperBasicSuperBASICSuperBASIC was an advanced variant of the BASIC programming language with many structured programming additions. It was developed at Sinclair Research by Jan Jones during the early 1980s. Originally SuperBASIC was intended for a home computer, code-named SuperSpectrum, then under development...
was also the name of the much later BASIC interpreterInterpreter (computing)In computer science, an interpreter normally means a computer program that executes, i.e. performs, instructions written in a programming language...
from Sinclair Research which was included in Sinclair QDOSSinclair QDOSQDOS is the multitasking operating system found on the Sinclair QL personal computer and its clones...
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Tymshare SuperBasic was an implementation of a variant of the BASIC programming language for the SDS 940
SDS 940
The SDS 940 was Scientific Data Systems' first machine designed to support time sharing directly, and was based on the SDS 930's 24-bit CPU built primarily of integrated circuits. It was announced in February 1966 and shipped in April, becoming a major part of Tymshare's expansion during the 1960s...
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