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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: How fast is AmigaBasic?
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Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 15:00:16 EDT
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In article <1348@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk> pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Paul Smee) writes:
>    ... So, I suppose what I want to know is 'are there 3rd-party Basics
>available for the Amiga, and how much faster are they than AmigaBasic?'
>(I'm trying to work out a rough guess for what a 'fair' comparison would
>have been.)
>Cheers, Paul

That I know of there are four 'BASICs' available for the Amiga. Of these
three are commercial products and consist of AmigaBASIC (that which comes
on the extras disk) the AmigaBASIC compiler that comes from AbSoft and 
True BASIC which is available in stores. The fourth was a port of a 
P.D. BASIC that came over the net some time ago. Obviously the compiled
AmigaBASIC is the fastest, although True BASIC probably edges out AmigaBASIC
in the interpreted mode (I say probably because I don't own it and only
played with it at a dealer for about 30 minutes, and it seemed faster although
not 'lots' faster). Nothing like GFA Basic so far, although at the rate 
A500's are selling in Germany this may change soon.

--Chuck McManis
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