BASIC (the programming language)
I first learned to program in BASIC back in the 1970s on my father's TRS-80 Model I personal computer, when I was about 10 years old and we lived in Wichita, Kansas. I taught myself this programming language, budding polymath that I was. It's amazing how much you could do with 4kB of RAM back in the 1970s! You could play Chess in 4kB! (The very
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So that's where the term comes from?
I know it from a couple of old games which you need the Dosbox for to run them - from starting menus that require you to choose your desired video display format.
Lost Dutchman Mine was such an example, I think (the game's from 1989).
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