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===Miscellaneous dialects=== Many dialects appeared in various other publications. [[File:FloppyRom_Magazine.jpg|thumb|right|The May 1977 issue featured a Floppy ROM containing MICRO-BASIC.]] Inspired by PCC's call for Tiny BASICs, Robert Uiterwyk wrote MICRO BASIC 1.3 for the [[SWTPC 6800]] system), which SWTPC published in the June 1976 issue of the SWTPC newsletter. Uiterwyk had handwritten the language on a legal tablet. He later expanded the language to 4K, adding support for floating point; this implementation was unique among BASIC interpreters by using [[Binary Coded Decimal]] to 9 digits of precision, with a range up to 10<sup>99</sup>, and by being published for free as a [[Flexi disc|"Floppy ROM"]] magazine insert. An 8K version added string variables and [[trigonometry]] functions. Both the 4K and 8K versions were sold by SWTPC. In January, 1978, Uiterwyk sold the rights of the source code to [[Motorola]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://deramp.com/swtpc.com/BASIC_2/Uiterwyk.htm | title = Robert Uiterwyk's BASIC}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://deramp.com/swtpc.com/NewsLetter1/MicroBasic.htm | title = Robert Uiterwyk's Micro Basic}}</ref> Thomas F. Waitman wrote a Tiny BASIC in 1976 for the Hewlett-Packard HP-2640 and HP-2645 terminals (which used the Intel 8008 and 8080 processors), which was published in the ''Hewlett-Packard Journal''. Published in the December 1976 issue of ''[[Interface Age]]'' was LLL ([[Lawrence Livermore Laboratory]]) BASIC, the first draft of which was developed by Steve Leininger from Allison's specification before Leininger left [[National Semiconductor]] for [[Tandy Corporation]]. The final interpreter was developed by John Dickenson, Jerry Barber, and John Teeter at the [[University of Idaho]] on a contract with LLL. Taking 5K, it included a floating-point package, developed by David Mead, Hal Brand, and Frank Olken. The program was placed into the public domain by LLL, which developed the system under the auspices of the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/interfaceAge/197612/110-124.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/interfaceAge/197612/110-124.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live | title=Part 1 Of LLL 8080 BASIC Interpreter}}</ref>
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