Commodore's Jack Tramiel got a very sweet deal from Microsoft for MS BASIC, as used in CBM's PET, once of the first integrated microcomputers. The company didn't even pay royalties. The result is that CBM used pretty much the same BASIC in the PET, VIC-20 and C64. It got trivial adjustments for the hardware, but bear in mind: the PET had no  ( Read more... )