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True BASIC programming language

True BASIC is a fully structured variant of the BASIC programming language descended from Dartmouth BASIC – the original BASIC – invented by college professors John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. When True BASIC appeared on the market, initially based on Dartmouth BASIC 7 -- otherwise known as ANSI BASIC -- it implemented a number of new features over QBASIC, and allowed the user a 16 color (redefinable), 640×480 backdrop for programming. True BASIC introduced new functions for graphics primitives like plot, plot area, flood, etc. It also was the first to provide a method for saving a portion of the screen and blitting it elsewhere, but had no proper buffering implementation. There are versions for DOS, Windows, MacOS, and Linux systems.
LET M = 2\n LET X = 3\n LET B =4\n LET Y = M*X+B\n PRINT "Y=";Y\n END

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