<s>
Business	B-Language
Basic	I-Language
is	O
a	O
category	O
of	O
variants	O
of	O
the	O
BASIC	O
computer	O
programming	O
language	O
which	O
were	O
specialised	O
for	O
business	O
use	O
on	O
minicomputers	B-Architecture
in	O
the	O
1970s	O
and	O
1980s	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
the	O
underlying	O
BASIC	O
language	O
,	O
these	O
dialects	O
added	O
record	O
handling	O
instructions	O
similar	O
to	O
those	O
in	O
COBOL	B-Application
,	O
allowing	O
programmers	O
to	O
build	O
complex	O
file-handling	O
applications	O
using	O
what	O
was	O
at	O
that	O
time	O
a	O
much	O
more	O
modern	O
programming	O
language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MAI	O
Systems	O
released	O
the	O
first	O
example	O
as	O
MAI	B-Language
Basic	I-Language
Four	I-Language
in	O
1972	O
,	O
and	O
several	O
similar	O
versions	O
emerged	O
through	O
the	O
1970s	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Business	B-Language
Basics	I-Language
added	O
indexed	B-Language
file	I-Language
access	O
methods	O
to	O
the	O
normal	O
set	O
of	O
BASIC	O
commands	O
,	O
and	O
were	O
optimised	O
for	O
other	O
input/output	O
access	O
,	O
especially	O
display	B-General_Concept
terminal	I-General_Concept
control	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
two	O
major	O
families	O
of	O
Business	B-Language
Basic	I-Language
are	O
Basic/Four	O
and	O
Data	B-Language
General	I-Language
Business	I-Language
Basic	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
addition	O
,	O
the	O
Point	O
4	O
company	O
,	O
which	O
developed	O
the	O
IRIS	O
operating	B-General_Concept
system	I-General_Concept
,	O
had	O
their	O
own	O
version	O
of	O
BASIC	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
1980s	O
,	O
Business	B-Language
Basics	I-Language
were	O
ported	O
from	O
their	O
original	O
proprietary	O
environments	O
to	O
many	O
Unix	B-Application
platforms	O
,	O
CP/M	B-Application
,	O
and	O
to	O
DOS	B-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
1990s	O
,	O
some	O
Business	B-Language
Basics	I-Language
were	O
ported	O
to	O
Linux	B-Application
and	O
Windows	B-Application
,	O
and	O
Business	B-Language
Basic	I-Language
integrated	B-Application
development	I-Application
environments	I-Application
became	O
available	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Notably	O
,	O
in	O
1990	O
MAI	O
's	O
version	O
was	O
ported	O
from	O
their	O
BOSS	O
operating	B-General_Concept
system	I-General_Concept
to	O
become	O
the	O
multi-platform	O
Open	O
BASIC	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Business	B-Language
Basic	I-Language
continues	O
to	O
be	O
widely	O
used	O
due	O
to	O
the	O
very	O
large	O
base	O
of	O
application	O
software	O
.	O
</s>
