Sinclair QL variant of the BASIC programming language
This article is about the interpreter included in Sinclair QDOS. For the unrelated BASIC system by Tymshare, see SUPER BASIC.
SuperBASIC
Developer(s)
Sinclair Research, Jan Jones
Initial release
1984; 40 years ago (1984)
Operating system
QDOS
Platform
Sinclair QL microcomputer
Type
second-generation BASIC
License
Proprietary
SuperBASIC is an advanced variant of the BASIC programming language with many structured programming additions. It was developed at Sinclair Research by Jan Jones during the early 1980s.
Originally SuperBASIC was intended as the BASIC interpreter for a home computer code-named SuperSpectrum, then under development. This project was later cancelled; however, SuperBASIC was subsequently included in the ROM firmware of the Sinclair QL microcomputer (announced in January 1984), also serving as the command line interpreter for the QL's QDOS operating system.[1][2]
It was one of the first second-generation BASICs to be integrated into a microcomputer's operating system (unlike BBC BASIC which preceded it in 1981), making the OS user-extendable—as done by Linus Torvalds in his formative years.
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