[vidarh]

> (Apparently that was common on 68000 based personal computers.)

I wouldn't say it was very common, but there are some notable examples, such as Amiga BASIC which was incidentally written by Microsoft. As a result it needed a patch to run on machines with the bigger M68k CPUs (which had 32 address lines vs. 24 address lines on the 68000), but it was so awful it died a swift death in any case.

[AstralStorm]

Not quite because it was awful, but because Amiga REXX was so much better.

[vidarh]

AREXX ports were fantastic, but the language is awful. But Amiga BASIC was no longer shipped wit the OS as of 2.x anyway, so unless you got a copy elsewhere there was no choice. But Amiga BASIC had falled out of favour long before that.

[LocalH]

AmigaBASIC was horrible. It didn't really make use of the OS facilities that well, and it was slow and cumbersome. Almost identical to Microsoft's BASIC for the Mac from what I've seen, and that was universally hated compared to MacBasic