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   From: nomail@example.com   
      
   Ian Jackson  wrote:   
   > In message , FranK Turner-Smith G3VKI   
   >  writes   
   >   
   >>>   
   >>Basicode! Yeah, that was it, a software form of Esperanto. Happy days.   
   >   
   > An 'Esperanto' that neither ZX81 nor Spectrum could understand!   
      
   It worked ok on most variants of Microsoft Basic of those days, and   
   some others, but I remember that the Sinclair Basic was quite different   
   so maybe it could not join that club...   
      
   Some people (Jonathan Marcks, Joop Engels) made a study of the lowest   
   common denominator of all those Basic versions and published a document   
   that described the language constructs that could safely be used.   
      
   And there was a kind of "function library" specific to each computer   
   that implemented nonportable things like clear screen, move cursor etc.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)