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Imagine if they had put a Forth interpreter instead? That would have been real genius... but alas we got a crappy BASIC because everyone else had one.

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Like the Jupiter Ace?

http://www.jupiter-ace.co.uk/

To be clear, BASIC came out in 1964 versus 1970 for Forth. I'm not sure how the creators of BASIC could've used Forth instead.

In popular micros that came out in 1980? In 1970 you still huge expensive boxes as computers...

Besides the Jupiter Ace pointed about, I used to see ads in YourSinclair and Crash about Forth units to plug into expansion ports.

Basic was a real bad idea to begin with...

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