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</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary">AlphaBASIC</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Programmer" title="Programmer">Original author(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Paul Edelstein,<br>Dick Wilcox,<br>Bob Courier</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Alpha_Microsystems" title="Alpha Microsystems">Alpha Microsystems</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Initial release</th><td class="infobox-data">1976</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>AlphaBASIC</b> is a <a href="Computer_programming_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer programming language">computer programming language</a> created by <a href="Alpha_Microsystems" title="Alpha Microsystems">Alpha Microsystems</a> in 1976.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The language was written by Alpha Microsystems employees Paul Edelstein, Dick Wilcox and Bob Courier.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Features">Features</h2></div>
<p>AlphaBASIC shares much in common with other <a href="BASIC" title="BASIC">BASIC</a> languages. It does offer some fairly unusual features such as multi-user orientation, ability to control memory layout of variables (MAP statement), calling of external assembly language subroutines (XCALL statement). The language is designed for developers of vertical market software packages. The <a href="Compiler" title="Compiler">compiler</a> and runtime system are written in <a href="Motorola_68000" title="Motorola 68000">Motorola 68000</a> <a href="Assembly_language" title="Assembly language">assembly language</a>, and thus are only able to run on Alpha Microsystems hardware. The compiler emits interpreter code.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Amiga_Basic" title="Amiga Basic">Amiga Basic</a></li></ul>
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</style><cite id="CITEREFAlpha_Microsystems1977" class="citation cs2">Alpha Microsystems (1977), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/192574235"><i>AlphaBasic&nbsp;: user's manual</i></a>, North Irvine, CA<span class="reference-accessdate">, retrieved <span class="nowrap">19 August</span> 2017</span></cite></span>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.microsabio.net/dist/doc/amb/00ambasic.htm#">AlphaBASIC User's Manual</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://code.google.com/archive/p/softworks-basic/">Softworks Basic is a compatible superset of the AlphaBasic Language</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Microsoft_BASIC" title="Microsoft BASIC">Microsoft BASIC</a></li>
<li>TRS-80 BASICs (<a href="Level_I_BASIC" title="Level I BASIC">Level I</a>, <a href="TRS-80_Level_II_BASIC" class="mw-redirect" title="TRS-80 Level II BASIC">Level II/III</a>)</li>
<li>Thomson <a href="Microsoft_Basic_1.0" title="Microsoft Basic 1.0">BASIC 1.0</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="TI-BASIC" title="TI-BASIC">TI-BASIC (calculators)</a></li>
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<li><a href="TI-BASIC_83" title="TI-BASIC 83">TI-BASIC 83</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="Rocky_Mountain_BASIC" title="Rocky Mountain BASIC">Rocky Mountain BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="HP_Time-Shared_BASIC" title="HP Time-Shared BASIC">HP Basic</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Locomotive_BASIC" title="Locomotive BASIC">Locomotive BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="Mallard_BASIC" title="Mallard BASIC">Mallard BASIC</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="Integer_BASIC" title="Integer BASIC">Integer BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="North_Star_BASIC" title="North Star BASIC">North Star BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="SCELBAL" title="SCELBAL">SCELBAL</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="Business_Basic" title="Business Basic">Business Basic</a> (<a href="B32_Business_Basic" title="B32 Business Basic">B32</a>, <a href="Data_General_Business_Basic" title="Data General Business Basic">Data General</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Data_General_Extended_BASIC" title="Data General Extended BASIC">Data General Extended BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="Southampton_BASIC_System" title="Southampton BASIC System">Southampton BASIC System</a></li>
<li><a href="Wang_BASIC" title="Wang BASIC">Wang BASIC</a></li></ul>
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<li>Extra! Basic Macro Language</li>
<li><a href="VSI_BASIC_for_OpenVMS" title="VSI BASIC for OpenVMS">VSI BASIC for OpenVMS</a></li>
<li><a href="SUPER_BASIC" title="SUPER BASIC">SUPER BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="CALL/360%3ABASIC" title="CALL/360:BASIC">CALL/360:BASIC</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="Casio_BASIC" title="Casio BASIC">Casio BASIC</a></li>
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<li><a href="PBASIC" title="PBASIC">PBASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="SDS_BASIC" title="SDS BASIC">SDS BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="Tiny_BASIC" title="Tiny BASIC">Tiny BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="UBASIC" title="UBASIC">UBASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="ZBasic" title="ZBasic">ZBasic</a></li>
<li>ETBASIC</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="BASIC_extension" title="BASIC extension">Extenders</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="BASIC_8" title="BASIC 8">BASIC 8</a></li>
<li>Graphics BASIC</li>
<li><a href="Simons'_BASIC" title="Simons' BASIC">Simons' BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="Super_Expander" title="Super Expander">Super Expander</a></li>
<li><a href="Super_Expander_64" title="Super Expander 64">Super Expander 64</a></li>
<li><a href="YS_MegaBasic" title="YS MegaBasic">YS MegaBasic</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Procedural_programming" title="Procedural programming">Procedure</a>-<br>oriented</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Proprietary_software" title="Proprietary software">Proprietary</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="AmigaBASIC" class="mw-redirect" title="AmigaBASIC">AmigaBASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="AMOS_(programming_language)" title="AMOS (programming language)">AMOS BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="ASIC_programming_language" title="ASIC programming language">ASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="BasicX" title="BasicX">BasicX</a></li>
<li><a href="Beta_BASIC" title="Beta BASIC">Beta BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="FutureBASIC" title="FutureBASIC">FutureBASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="GRASS_(programming_language)" title="GRASS (programming language)">GRASS</a></li>
<li><a href="Liberty_BASIC" title="Liberty BASIC">Liberty BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="LSE_(programming_language)" title="LSE (programming language)">LSE</a></li>
<li><a href="MapBasic" title="MapBasic">MapBasic</a></li>
<li><a href="Mobile_BASIC" title="Mobile BASIC">Mobile BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="OWBasic" class="mw-redirect" title="OWBasic">OWBasic</a></li>
<li><a href="PowerBASIC" title="PowerBASIC">PowerBASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="PureBasic" title="PureBasic">PureBasic</a></li>
<li><a href="Petit_Computer" title="Petit Computer">SmileBASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="Tiger-BASIC" title="Tiger-BASIC">Tiger-BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="True_BASIC" title="True BASIC">True BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="Turbo_Basic" class="mw-redirect" title="Turbo Basic">Turbo Basic</a></li>
<li><a href="WordBASIC" title="WordBASIC">WordBASIC</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Free_and_open_source" class="mw-redirect" title="Free and open source">Free and<br>open source</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Basic-256" title="Basic-256">Basic-256</a></li>
<li><a href="Basic4GL" title="Basic4GL">Basic4GL</a></li>
<li><a href="BBC_BASIC#Acorn_Archimedes_(RISC_OS)" title="BBC BASIC">BBC BASIC V</a></li>
<li><a href="The_Game_Creators" title="The Game Creators">DarkBASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="Euphoria_(programming_language)" title="Euphoria (programming language)">Euphoria</a></li>
<li><a href="Hindawi_Programming_System" title="Hindawi Programming System">Indic BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_Programming_Language" title="Open Programming Language">Open Programming Language</a></li>
<li><a href="SdlBasic" title="SdlBasic">SdlBasic</a></li>
<li><a href="SmallBASIC" title="SmallBASIC">SmallBASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="QB64" title="QB64">QB64</a></li>
<li><a href="WxBasic" title="WxBasic">wxBasic</a></li>
<li><a href="XBasic" title="XBasic">XBasic</a></li>
<li><a href="XBLite" title="XBLite">Xblite</a></li>
<li><a href="Yabasic" title="Yabasic">Yabasic</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">With <a href="Object-oriented_programming" title="Object-oriented programming">object</a><br>extensions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Proprietary_software" title="Proprietary software">Proprietary</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="AutoIt" title="AutoIt">AutoIt</a></li>
<li><a href="Chipmunk_Basic" title="Chipmunk Basic">Chipmunk Basic</a></li>
<li><a href="GLBasic" title="GLBasic">GLBasic</a></li>
<li><a href="LotusScript" title="LotusScript">LotusScript</a></li>
<li><a href="Morfik" title="Morfik">Morfik</a></li>
<li><a href="PowerBASIC" title="PowerBASIC">PowerBASIC</a></li>
<li>ProvideX</li>
<li>Run BASIC</li>
<li><a href="Visual_Basic_for_Applications" title="Visual Basic for Applications">VBA</a></li>
<li><a href="VBScript" title="VBScript">VBScript</a></li>
<li>VB 5 for <a href="Microsoft_Excel" title="Microsoft Excel">Microsoft Excel</a> 5.0
<ul><li><a href="Visual_Studio_Tools_for_Office" title="Visual Studio Tools for Office">VSTO</a></li>
<li><a href="Visual_Studio_Tools_for_Applications" title="Visual Studio Tools for Applications">VSTA</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Embedded_Visual_Basic" title="Embedded Visual Basic">Embedded Visual Basic</a></li>
<li>WinWrap Basic</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Free_and_open_source" class="mw-redirect" title="Free and open source">Free and<br>open source</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Blitz_BASIC" title="Blitz BASIC">BlitzMax</a></li>
<li><a href="FreeBASIC" title="FreeBASIC">FreeBASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="Microsoft_Small_Basic" title="Microsoft Small Basic">Microsoft Small Basic</a></li>
<li><a href="Mono_(software)" title="Mono (software)">Mono-Basic</a></li>
<li><a href="OpenOffice_Basic" title="OpenOffice Basic">OpenOffice Basic</a></li>
<li>ScriptBasic</li>
<li><a href="Roslyn_(compiler)" title="Roslyn (compiler)">Roslyn</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Rapid_application_development" title="Rapid application development">RAD</a><br><a href="GUI_designer" class="mw-redirect" title="GUI designer">designers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Proprietary_software" title="Proprietary software">Proprietary</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="CA-Realizer" title="CA-Realizer">CA-Realizer</a></li>
<li><a href="Visual_Basic_(classic)" title="Visual Basic (classic)">Visual Basic (classic)</a></li>
<li><a href="NS_Basic" title="NS Basic">NS Basic</a></li>
<li><a href="RapidQ" title="RapidQ">RapidQ</a></li>
<li><a href="Visual_Basic_(.NET)" title="Visual Basic (.NET)">Visual Basic .NET</a> (<a href="Mercury_(RemObjects_BASIC_programming_language)" title="Mercury (RemObjects BASIC programming language)">Mercury</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Xojo" title="Xojo">Xojo</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Free_and_open_source" class="mw-redirect" title="Free and open source">Free and<br>open source</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li>B4X (<a href="Basic4android" title="Basic4android">Basic4android</a>, <a href="Basic4ppc" title="Basic4ppc">Basic4ppc</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Gambas" title="Gambas">Gambas</a></li>
<li><a href="FreeBASIC" title="FreeBASIC">WinFBE, Visual FB Editor</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Altair_BASIC" title="Altair BASIC">Altair BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="Applesoft_BASIC" title="Applesoft BASIC">Applesoft BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="Apple_Business_BASIC" title="Apple Business BASIC">Apple Business BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="Atari_BASIC" title="Atari BASIC">Atari BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="Atari_Microsoft_BASIC" title="Atari Microsoft BASIC">Atari Microsoft BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="Atari_ST_BASIC" title="Atari ST BASIC">Atari ST BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="BASIC_A%2B" title="BASIC A+">BASIC A+</a></li>
<li><a href="Optimized_Systems_Software#BASIC_XE" title="Optimized Systems Software">BASIC XE</a></li>
<li><a href="Optimized_Systems_Software#BASIC_XL" title="Optimized Systems Software">BASIC XL</a></li>
<li><a href="BASIC_Programming" title="BASIC Programming"><i>BASIC Programming</i> (Atari 2600)</a></li>
<li><a href="BBC_BASIC" title="BBC BASIC">BBC BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="Benton_Harbor_BASIC" title="Benton Harbor BASIC">Benton Harbor BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="Chinese_BASIC" title="Chinese BASIC">Chinese BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="Commodore_BASIC" title="Commodore BASIC">Commodore BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="Color_BASIC" title="Color BASIC">Color BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="Dartmouth_BASIC" title="Dartmouth BASIC">Dartmouth BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="Disk_Extended_Color_BASIC" title="Disk Extended Color BASIC">Disk Extended Color BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="Extended_Color_BASIC" title="Extended Color BASIC">Extended Color BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="Family_BASIC" title="Family BASIC">Family BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="GFA_BASIC" title="GFA BASIC">GFA BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="GW-BASIC" title="GW-BASIC">GW-BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="IBM_BASIC" title="IBM BASIC">IBM BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="JR-BASIC" title="JR-BASIC">JR-BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="MacBASIC" title="MacBASIC">MacBASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="MBASIC" title="MBASIC">MBASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="MSX_BASIC" title="MSX BASIC">MSX BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="MS_BASIC_for_Macintosh" title="MS BASIC for Macintosh">MS BASIC for Macintosh</a></li>
<li><a href="QBasic" title="QBasic">QBasic</a></li>
<li><a href="QuickBASIC" title="QuickBASIC">QuickBASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="S-BASIC" title="S-BASIC">S-BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="Sinclair_BASIC" title="Sinclair BASIC">Sinclair BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="STOS_BASIC" title="STOS BASIC">STOS BASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="SuperBASIC" title="SuperBASIC">SuperBASIC</a></li>
<li><a href="TI_BASIC_(TI_99/4A)" title="TI BASIC (TI 99/4A)">TI BASIC (TI 99/4A)</a></li>
<li><a href="Turbo-BASIC_XL" title="Turbo-BASIC XL">Turbo-BASIC XL</a></li>
<li><a href="Vilnius_BASIC" title="Vilnius BASIC">Vilnius BASIC</a></li></ul>
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