Talk:IBM BASIC

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Text and/or other creative content from this version of IBM BASICA was copied or moved into IBM BASIC with this edit on 14:04, 22 December 2011. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

A move of IBM BASICA to IBM BASIC would have been easier and have avoided the possible copyvio tagging. ; Wbm1058 (talk) 01:06, 8 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This was done retroactively with a history merge on 13 January 2013. – Wbm1058 (talk) 19:57, 19 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Text and/or other creative content from this version of IBM Cassette BASIC was copied or moved into IBM BASIC with this edit on 14:10, 22 December 2011. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

Text and/or other creative content from this version of IBM Disk BASIC was copied or moved into IBM BASIC with this edit on 14:18, 22 December 2011. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

Proposal to merge "IBM cassette tape" and "IBM BASIC"[edit]

It has been proposed to merge the two mentioned articles, but whilst related I find they discuss different topics and therefore should not be merged. There's a lot to discuss about IBM BASIC not related to the IBM PC's cassette port, and the article about the cassette port should be expanded to discuss the actual data format used and the programming interface, as it was not only available under IBM BASIC, but also through ROM BIOS INT 15h services or direct hardware access, stuff unrelated to IBM BASIC. Therefore, the articles should not be merged, IMHO. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 19:05, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

See also the discussion here: Talk:IBM Cassette tape#Proposed merge --Matthiaspaul (talk) 16:46, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Important note – For whatever reasons, there is also discussion occurring on the talk page for the IBM Cassette tape article that has occurred here. As of the time of this post, there are two "oppose" comments on that page. Northamerica1000^(talk) 09:08, 15 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There would be about 1 paragraph of non-redundant information from the cassette port article to add to this article; it's not like there's ever going to be a lot written about the 5150 port in isolation. It would be better merged here. --Wtshymanski (talk) 00:14, 23 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

BASICA.COM[edit]

Where does "BASICA.COM" come from? The WWW didn't exist when I started programming BASICA around 1982. (And products didn't have custom DNS names.)

Mdnahas (talk) 15:57, 8 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

See COM file. COM is an abbreviation of COMmand. The .COM file name extension has no relation to the .com (for "commercial") top-level Internet domain name. Does that answer your question? Wbm1058 (talk) 04:54, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]