Battle of the BASICs: Atari vs. Microsoft

Microsoft: "We set the standard"

Last week’s post about Atari and Microsoft generated some great comments about my brief discussion of Atari BASIC and Microsoft BASIC. For example, this was from Scott Adams (of Adventure International the text adventure company, not the Dilbert guy):

Cool history. Learned some things I wasn’t aware of before. The Atari basic was a step down from MS Badi…