| AlphaBASIC | |
|---|---|
| Original authors | Paul Edelstein, Dick Wilcox, Bob Courier |
| Developer | Alpha Microsystems |
| Initial release | 1976 |
AlphaBASIC is acomputer programming language created byAlpha Microsystems in 1976.[1][2] The language was written by Alpha Microsystems employees Paul Edelstein, Dick Wilcox and Bob Courier.[3]
AlphaBASIC shares much in common with otherBASIC languages. It does offer some fairly unusual features such asmulti-user orientation, ability to control memory layout of variables (MAP statement), calling of external assembly language subroutines (XCALL statement). The language is designed for developers of vertical market software packages. Thecompiler and runtime system are written inMotorola 68000assembly language, and thus are only able to run on Alpha Microsystems hardware. The compiler emits interpreter code.
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