Comment Misleading (Score 1) 117
The article is misleading because it suggests that MS killed BASIC on the Mac, but what they really did is kill development of Apple's BASIC for the Mac. MS shipped their own version of BASIC when the Mac came out. In fact, it was the only native Mac development platform at the time the Mac shipped. MS Basic included Peek, Poke, and Call commands, so you could execute machine code. The Megamax C compiler slipped through that little opening (Megamax C was a full-featured native C compiler for the Mac that shipped in Oct of 1984).
