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Business Basic variety
Basic/Four is a variety of Business Basic which originally ran on computers of the same name introduced in 1971. The company that produced the system, Management Assistance, Inc., was later known as Basic/Four Corporation, MAI Basic Four, Inc., and MAI Basic Four Information Systems. Basic/Four set the pattern for the business BASIC market, with similar products appearing on other minicomputer systems, and later, microcomputers like the Apple III. It remained a popular product into the early 1980s, when increasingly powerful micros replaced it, and MAI turned to selling pre-packaged Basic/Four like accounting software. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Basic/FourA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Review, Analysis, and Design of Four Basic CPT Topologies and the Application of High-Order Compensation NetworksInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Introductory ChemistryThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Four ways five factors are basicCited 2,443 times
- Go sideways: MAI SystemsA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Prime ComputerA closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Four ways five factors are basic
Comparison of four basic models of indirect pharmacodynamic responses
Four ways five factors are not basic
Differential Facial Responses to Four Basic Tastes in Newborns
Characterization of four basic models of indirect pharmacodynamic responses
Evaluation and modification of the basic four food guide
Basic considerations of four-wave mixing and dynamic gratings
Four basic characteristics of the gastrin-cholecystokinin system
🆕 Influential since 2022
Review, Analysis, and Design of Four Basic CPT Topologies and the Application of High-Order Compensation Networks
Four very basic ways to think about policy in implementation science
Interactions of umami with the four other basic tastes in equi-intense aqueous solutions
Problem solving in basic physics: Effective self-explanations based on four elements with support from retrieval practice
The Matrix Reloaded: A Revised Framework for the Inference of the Four Basic Forms of Social Differentiation
📚 Books worth reading
Introductory ChemistrySteven S. Zumdahl · 1990
Basic English GrammarRuth C. Elliott · 2000
A Simple PathHis Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the XIV Dalai Lama · 2000- 📕Elson Basic ReadersLura E. Runkel, William S. Gray · 1929
The heart of the Buddha's teachingThích Nhất Hạnh · 1998
The platinum ruleAnthony J. Alessandra, Tony Alessandra · 1998
24 tasks for basic modern JapaneseFujiko Motohashi, Satoko Hayashi · 1989- 📕Teacher's guidebook for the Elson basic readers ..William S. Gray, Edna B. Liek · 1931
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