BASIC INTERPRETER HIDDEN IN ESP32 SILICON

[ebclr]

Interesting discovery

http://hackaday.com/2016/10/27/basic-interpreter-hidden-in-esp32-silicon/

[hamster_nz]

I would hate to be somebody guilty of that crime against computing...... 

oh? wait! what? noooooo! It is based on THAT version of TinyBASIC?!

WHAT HAVE I DONE!   

[DutchGert]

You forgot to control your Caps-Lock

[rstofer]

Way back when I was messing with 8085s, the second thing I would bring up on a new project was Li-Chen Wang's "Palo Alto Tiny Basic".  The first thing was always a variant of the Intel Monitor Program.

PATB was a handy tool for exercising peripheral devices prior to writing driver code.  I can see why they added such a feature to ESP32.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Chen_Wang#Palo_Alto_Tiny_BASIC

[ChristofferB]

Small interpreters are my favorite thing to work with in µC's. the 8051 also has a basic that is now open source, and you can get it running by strapping an EPROM on almost any 8051/8031/8052 etc. compatible board with a serial port. Great fun indeed. Glad to see this is still a thing 
 

[CJay]

Small interpreters are my favorite thing to work with in µC's. the 8051 also has a basic that is now open source, and you can get it running by strapping an EPROM on almost any 8051/8031/8052 etc. compatible board with a serial port. Great fun indeed. Glad to see this is still a thing 

Fun fact, if you get Intel 8032 chips of a certain era and strap EA for internal ROM you'll find some of them have BASIC52 V1.0 burned in, seems Intel shipped a load as ROMless when they went to BAISC52 V1.1