MBASIC is a descendant of the original Altair BASIC interpreters that were among Microsoft's first products.
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10 Facts About MBASIC
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MBASIC was one of the two versions of BASIC bundled with the Osborne 1 computer.
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Apart from these limitations, MBASIC was considered at the time to be a powerful and useful implementation of BASIC.
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Particular advantage of MBASIC was the full-text error messages provided for syntax and run-time errors.
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MBASIC had a "trace" function that displayed line numbers as they were executed.
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Unlike some other BASIC implementations of the time, MBASIC did not provide support for matrix operations, complex numbers, or a decimal data type for financial calculations.
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MBASIC permitted but did not require the LET keyword for assignment statements.
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MBASIC did not make structured programming mandatory for programmers and it was easy to write spaghetti code.
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MSX-BASIC is a well known successor of MBASIC, featuring several extensions specific to the MSX machines.
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Exchange of useful MBASIC programs was a common function of computer users' groups.
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