[Simh] 101 Basic Games for RSTS/E (was Re: PDP11 on Simh for public access)

[Harald Arnesen]

Tim Shoppa [21.01.2019 23:51]:

> As to comments that seem to have shrunk, look at for example the
> shrinkage of the original comment block from Mayfield's 1972 HP program
> library version of STAR TREK, to the 1973 RSTS SPACWR version in the Ahl
> collection. With most vintage BASIC interpreters there was a runtime
> penalty to putting large comment blocks at the start of your program -
> maybe the HP 3000 BASIC was a true compiler?

I learned programming on such a machine, around 1983. We started with
BASIC, then got on to COBOL, Pascal and some Fortran.

There were both an interpreter and a compiler for HP3000 BASIC.
-- 
Hilsen Harald