BASIC

Etymology:
BASIC = Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

                                        chipmunk-basic
Etymology: see *

MAC NAME: chipmunk-basic                                      

VERSION: 3.1.0                                 

README: 
"Every personal computer should have a Basic interpreter; here's one for the PowerMac (and 68K Macs too).
Chipmunk Basic is a simple Basic interpreter, accelerated for
PowerMacs.  It is similar to the line number based MumbleSoft BASIC interpreters of circa 1980.  Its roots are from a pascal program, basic.p, that was part of the test input suite to p2c, a pascal to c translator.  Both basic.p and p2c should be in the net.sources archives somewhere.  I cleaned up the translated source, ported it to the Macintosh, fixed various bugs and added several Mac specific features." 

AUTHOR:  
mac port:
Ronald H. Nicholson, Jr
    
COPYRIGHT:
(c)  1990,1994 Ronald H. Nicholson, Jr

INTERNET SITES:
Info-Mac
UMich
ftp://ftp.uwtc.washington.edu/pub/Mac/Programming/Languages/
ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/macintosh/dev/
ftp://ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/macintosh/dev/
ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/mac/development/languages/
ftp://dipmat.unife.it/Root/Software%20Macintosh/Programming/
ftp://MacFTP.RZ.Uni-Augsburg.DE/pub/programming/

Old versions: 
ftp://ezinfo.ethz.ch/mac/programming/                                                 
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/mac/lang/Basic/
ftp://pascal.zedat.fu-berlin.de/mac/lang/Basic/
ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/mac/lang/Basic/                                                  
ftp://ftp.luth.se/pub/mac/developer/lang/
http://multivac.ludd.luth.se/pub/mac/developer/lang/
ftp://ftp.uwtc.washington.edu/pub/Mac/Programming/Languages/
ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/mac/development/languages/

*
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995 12:46:16 -0700
From: rhn@netcom.com (Ron Nicholson)
To: xpolakis@athena.compulink.gr

Hello,

>What is the etymology of CHIPMUNK (: why this name)?
The old pascal version was named that way by Dave Gillespie when
he was a student at Cal Tech.

- Ron Nicholson