User:Mdltbd/Thoroughbred BASIC

Thoroughbred Business Basic Thoroughbred® Business Basic is a derivative of the original Dartmouth BASIC programming language with business extensions added including date, numeric and file extensions. Extensions to the Thoroughbred Basic dialect included IDOL™ and IDOL-IV™ (Interactive Definition Oriented Language) providing an object definition dictionary, OPENworkshop™ supporting methods and reusable objects, and T-WEB/XML providing Internet development and XML support. Thoroughbred products support Windows, UNIX, Linux and HP/DEC VMS operating systems.

Thousands of business applications have been developed in Thoroughbred Business Basic and are distributed world-wide including manufacturing, distribution, hospitality, health care, membership, services, property management, banking, florists, etc. Thoroughbred Basic is scaleable, and can support small, medium and large businesses requiring thousands of users.

Originally known as SMC Basic in the late 1970’s, Thoroughbred re-branded the product in 1982 as Thoroughbred Basic. Since its original design as a development language for small and medium business applications, Thoroughbred has added many new features keeping up with changing technologies such as graphical interfaces, VIP™, 3rd party database support, object oriented programming, client-server support, web and XML programming support and extended native database features and normalization. Comprehensive transaction back-up and disaster recovery systems have also been added to Thoroughbred Business Basic support.