BASIC was the "Ford Model T" of the programming languages, and so also for CP/M ... BASIC is an older programming language. It was developed in 1964 at the Darthmouth College by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz. If you're curious about the further history and the variations, take a look at the very good >wikipedia article<. For CP/M, a few popular variations were created: MBASIC (or BAS
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