> ... is in bascom, whatever that is. I had to look it up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBASIC#BASCOM > Microsoft sold a CP/M BASIC compiler (known as BASCOM) > which used a similar source language to MBASIC. > Developers welcomed BASCOM as an alternative to the popular but slow and > clumsy CBASIC. Unlike CBASIC, BASCOM did not need a preprocessor for MBASIC > source code so could be debugged interactively.[2] A disadvantage was > Microsoft's requirement of a 9% royalty for each compiled copy of a > program[3] and $40 for hardware-software combinations. ??? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.

For quite some time (most of the last 10 years) Elektor magazine promoted BASCOM-AVR as an easy to use development language for the AVR micro. They have multiple books teaching BASCOM-AVR and a few hardware kits to go along. BASCOM-AVR is still available at https://www.mcselec.com/index.php?option=com_phpshop&page=shop.browse&category_id=5&Itemid=1 > Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 6:22 PM > From: "Hal Murray" <hmurray@megapathdsl.net> > To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts@febo.com> > Cc: hmurray@megapathdsl.net > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Simple open source microcontroller solution to tune DDS needed > > > ... is in bascom, whatever that is. > > I had to look it up. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBASIC#BASCOM > > > Microsoft sold a CP/M BASIC compiler (known as BASCOM) > > which used a similar source language to MBASIC.