When True BASIC appeared on the market in 1985, the BASIC language was widely used on home computers, but with little standardization.

True BASIC introduced new functions for graphics primitives like plot, plot area, flood, etc.

True BASIC provides statements for matrix arithmetic, a feature that had been present in Dartmouth BASIC since early times, but had been dropped in almost all microcomputer versions of BASIC interpreters due to memory limitations.

There are versions of the True BASIC compiler for DOS, Windows, and " classic " Mac OS.

There is currently no Mac OS X version of True BASIC, and so it will not run on any Mac system released since 2005.

The designers wanted to make the language hardware-independent, to allow True BASIC source code to run equally well on any version of their compiler.

Using newer versions of True BASIC, some of the older functions are blocked out.

As one can see, even without comments ( text following the unquoted exclamation point ), True BASIC code can be read rather easily.

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Among them are: John Draper ( also known as Captain Crunch ), infamous phone phreaker ; Bill Gates, Harvard dropout and “ cocky wizard ” who wrote Altair BASIC ; Richard Greenblatt, the “ hacker's hacker ”; Steve Jobs, visionary ; Marvin Minsky, “ playful and brilliant " MIT professor who headed the MIT AI Lab ; Richard Stallman, The Last of the True Hackers ; and many, many others.

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In 1979 Kemeny and Kurtz released an ANSI BASIC compiler as the seventh and final version of BASIC at Dartmouth before leaving the college to concentrate on the further development of ANSI BASIC in the form of True BASIC.

True reality, of course, is the ideal, and the poet knows nothing of this ; ;

True, the adherents of staying put are now reduced to a minor, even a miniscule sect, and their credo, `` Home-keeping hearts are happiest '', is as disreputable as Socinianism.

True, a Mason watercolor is unmistakably a synthesis of nature rather than a detailed inventory.

True, it is no longer cricket for the butler to be the killer in mystery fiction, but we are dealing here with actual people in real life and not imaginary characters and situations.

True lowland is confined to a few narrow coastal strips along the Aegean, Mediterranean, and Black Sea coasts.

True to his empirical thesis, Hume tells the reader that, though testimony does have some force, it is never quite as powerful as the direct evidence of the senses.

:: True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ;

Judaism and Christianity share the belief that there is One, True God, who is the only one worthy to be worshipped.

So does the Coptic Church, which, being part of Oriental Orthodoxy, is not in communion with the Eastern Orthodox Church and considers itself " the True Church of the Lord Jesus Christ ".

During the excavation, Helena is alleged to have rediscovered the True Cross, and a tomb, though Eusebius's account makes no mention of Helena's presence at the excavation, nor of the finding of the cross but only the tomb.

By the crusader period, a cistern under the former basilica was rumoured to have been the location that Helena had found the True Cross, and began to be venerated as such ; although the cistern later became the Chapel of the Invention of the Cross, there is no evidence for the rumour prior to the 11th century, and modern archaeological investigation has now dated the cistern to the 11th century repairs by Monomachos.

They published a magazine for a short time and held an exhibit in Rome, featuring paintings, Tristan Tzara quotes, and original epigrams such as " True Dada is against Dada ".

True sable is a dachshund with each single hair banded with three colors: light at the base of the hair, red in the middle, black at the end.

The title Daodejing is an honorific given by posterity, other titles include the amalgam Lǎozǐ Dàodéjīng ( 老子道德經 ), the honorific Daode Zhen Jing ( 道德真經 " True Classic of the Way and the Power "), and the Wuqian wen ( " Five thousand character ").

" True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why it Works " is

" James's reading of The True Law of Free Monarchies allowed that "... a good king will frame all his actions to be according to the law, yet is he not bound thereto but of his good will ..." James also had printed his Defense of the Right of Kings in the face of English theories of inalienable popular and clerical rights.

Glenn A. Baker, author of Monkeemania: The True Story of the Monkees, commented in 1986 that " for an artist as versatile and confident as Jones, the relative failure of his post-Monkees activities is puzzling.

Gomen kitfo is another dish prepared in the occasion of Meskel, a very popular holiday marking the discovery of the True Cross.

The most famous of these assertions is by the History Channel in their " True Horror " series ( produced by Hardy Pictures in 2009 ) which states Aldini specifically as one of the sources for Mary Shelley's novel.

True gluten, with gliadin and glutenin, is limited to certain members of the grass family.

The horseshoe is presented as a talisman in The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil ; Showing how the Horse-Shoe came to be a Charm against Witchcraft, written in 1871 by Edward G. Flight, with illustrations by George Cruikshank and engravings by John Thompson.

True implantation-invasion into the endometrium of any sort-does not occur until about day 35 of pregnancy with the formation of the endometrial cups, and true placentation ( formation of the placenta ) is not initiated until about day 40-45 and not completed until about 140 days of pregnancy.

Booleans ( called truthvalues in MUMPS ): In IF commands and other syntax that has expressions evaluated as conditions, any string value is evaluated as a numeric value, and if that is a nonzero value, then it is interpreted as True.

Andrew Lang included a variant called " The True History of Little Goldenhood " in The Red Fairy Book ( 1890 ).

True regular commercial television network programming did not begin in the U. S. until 1948.

Many movies with a general sports theme will include ESPN announcers and programming into their storylines ( such as in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, which gently lampoons the channel's multiple outlets by referencing the as-yet-nonexistent ESPN8, " The Ocho ", a reference to a nickname formerly used for ESPN2, " the Deuce "; the slogan for the network was " If it's almost a sport, you'll find it here!

Other features that were added were: Accusnap, Design History, models, unlimited undo, VBA programming,. Net interoperability, True Scale, and standard definitions for working units ( as the new file format stored everything internally in meters, but can recognize rational unit conversions so that it can know the size of geometry )( some of these features were also available in Microstation 95 to Microstation J ).

The constants 1 and 0 are sometimes used to represent the boolean values True and False in programming languages without a boolean type such as older versions of C. Most modern programming languages provide a or primitive type and so the use of 0 and 1 is ill-advised.

WIFO-FM Jesup, GA airs the True Oldies Channel during weekends as a contrast to its normal weekday country programming, and it is well received.

True Hollywood Story, were aired in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, to help partially fulfill CJNT's ethnic programming requirements.

WPLJ's digital HD2 channel broadcasts programming from Scott Shannon's The True Oldies Channel from ABC Radio, while their HD3 channel is a simulcast of WABC.

During Vizard ’ s chairmanship, the comedy channel produced and broadcast over 80 hours each year of original Australian programming, commissioning emerging writers and performers including This Is Gary Petty ( starring Brian Nankervis, Francis Greenslade, Matt Cameron ); Off Road ( starring Lawrence Mooney ); The Fifty Foot Show ( starring Paul Fennech and Kitty Flanagan ); Home and Hosed ( starring Shane Bourne, Bob Franklin and Ross Daniels ); Small Tales and True ( Roz Hammond and Robyn Butler ).

AnimeCentral has been replaced with Showcase TV on August 27, 2008 which simlucasts of mixture of channels such as Pop Girl, Chart Show TV, True Movies 2 alongside with AnimeCentral programming block with repeats of Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

The True Oldies Channel programming has since moved to a simulcast with WMTY AM 670 and WMTY-FM Citadel merged with Cumulus Media on September 16, 2011.