Vilnius BASIC was a dialect of the BASIC

BASIC

BASIC is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use - the name is an acronym from Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code....

 programming language

Programming language

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 running on the Elektronika

Elektronika

Electronika is the brand name used for many different electronic products such as calculators, electronic watches, portable games and radios in the Soviet Union and, nowadays, in Russia...

 BK-0010-01/BK-0011M and UKNC

UKNC

UKNC was a Soviet PDP-11-compatible educational computer, aimed at teaching school informatics courses. It is also known as Elektronika MS-0511...

 computers.

It was a quite advanced BASIC and featured a runtime threaded code

Threaded code

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 compiler

Compiler

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 that compiled the program when one entered the RUN command. The dialect was very close to MSX BASIC

MSX BASIC

MSX BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language. It is an extended version of Microsoft Standard BASIC Version 4.5, and includes support for graphic, music, and various peripherals attached to MSX Personal Computers. Generally, MSX-BASIC is designed to follow GW-BASIC, which is one of the...

. The major differences were the lack of the PLAY, SOUND, VPOKE and PUT SPRITE operators, the inability to open several files at the same time, and the inability to use more than one operator on one line. Only the UKNC

UKNC

UKNC was a Soviet PDP-11-compatible educational computer, aimed at teaching school informatics courses. It is also known as Elektronika MS-0511...

 version had a full-screen editor. Machine-dependent features, like graphics operators parameters and PEEK/POKE addresses were also different.

The software was developed at Vilnius University

Vilnius University

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, located in Lithuania

Lithuania

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 which was a republic of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 at the time.

See also

• List of BASIC dialects
• List of BASIC dialects by platform

External links

• HCM - The HomeComputer Museum about Vilnius BASIC. Митрюхин В.К., Донской А.Н., Михайлов А.В., Немов А.М. Программирование на БК-0010-01. http://bk0010.narod.ru/docs/bk-prog.html (Programming for BK-0010-01).