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MS BASIC for Macintosh

MS BASIC for Macintosh was a dialect of Microsoft BASIC for Macintosh. It was one of the first Microsoft BASIC variants to have optional line numbering, predating QuickBASIC. It was provided in two versions, one with standard binary floating point and another with decimal arithmetic.

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MS BASIC for Macintosh
DeveloperMicrosoft
Initial release1984 (1984)
PlatformClassic Mac OS
TypeMicrosoft BASIC
LicenseProprietary

MS BASIC for Macintosh was a dialect of Microsoft BASIC for Macintosh. It was one of the first Microsoft BASIC variants to have optional line numbering, predating QuickBASIC. It was provided in two versions, one with standard binary floating point and another with decimal arithmetic.1

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  1. Hart, Glenn (May 1985). "Microsoft Basic 2.0 for the Mac". Creative Computing. 11 (5): 46. Retrieved 24 May 2017.