Basic Computer

EE 24 November 1987 BASIC COMPUTER As already noted in refer- ence (I), the Type 8052AH- BASIC V1.1 is a single-chip microcontroller tailored to data manipulation in intelligent instrumentation, measurement and control systems. Not sur- prisingly, therefore, the 8052AH-BASIC features an ex- tensive and powerful set of in- put/output and timekeeping functions. By virtue of its compactness and ease of programming, the BASIC computer described here is suitable for a wide range of domestic as well as in- dustrial applications. Although not every programmer will ap- plaud the use of BASIC, it can be argued that this is still the most widely known, and often first apprehended, program- ming language. Moreover, the BASIC interpreter of the 8052AH-BASIC is an advanced version offering instructions like DO-WHILE and DO-UNTIL which enable better structuring of programs than the GOTO statement. Also, variables can be stored and retrieved by means of instructions PUSH and POP. The BASIC inter...