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Altair BASIC

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Aliases: MITS BASIC, BASIC-80

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3 sources · pl_id: pl/altair-basic-2

LLM (this repo) · 1 Wikipedia Wikidata · Q286196

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Designed by	Bill Gates · Paul Allen · Monte Davidoff
First appeared	1975

Related languages

Microsoft BASIC (0.37)BASIC-80 (0.26)ZX-80 BASIC (0.21)DEC BASIC (0.21)Oric BASIC (0.20)

LLM-contributed programs

Simple Loop Example

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10 PRINT "ALTAIR 8800"
20 FOR I = 1 TO 10
30 PRINT "NUMBER: "; I
40 NEXT I
50 PRINT "DONE"
60 END

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