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> I have no idea what Apple's MacBasic was like

This was already apparent.

Microsoft BASIC for Mac was a lowest common denominator sort of product.

It did the sorts of things BASIC could do on any platform fairly well (since most platforms ran a Microsoft BASIC variant), but it did an incredibly poor job of allowing a user to write programs that worked as if they were designed for a Mac.



> This was already apparent

On edge? We're just talking here. I'm not trying to hold up MS Basic as some awesome programming environment, just describing how I experienced it




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