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Southampton BASIC System (SOBS} was a dialect of the BASIC programming language developed for and used on ICT 1900 series computers in the late 60s and early 70s; it was implemented under the MINIMOP operating system at the University of Southampton.[1]

It was operated from a teletype terminal.

References

  1. ^ Rees, M.J.; Oppenheimer, A.W. (21 January 1977). "SOBS - an incremental BASIC system". Software. Wiley InterScience. doi:10.1002/spe.4380070508. Retrieved 18 May 2009.