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Comment by PaulHoule

1 year ago

In a lot of cases it only supported integer math, one of the selling points of Microsoft BASIC was that it supported floats. Notably Wozniak's Integer BASIC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_BASIC

wasn't considered good enough for education because it could only count to 32,767, there was the same problem with Level I BASIC for the TRS-80 Model I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_I_BASIC