"MSX" on Dutch news-website

What's the most remarkable is that it's a MSXPLAYer shot!
And BTW, the article is about BASIC being around for 40 years, not 20.

really cool!!

I read somewhere (long time ago) that the very first basic only had about 20 commands orso (or maybe even less!)... does anyone have any idea which commands those were?

Well, naturally the first basic didn't have things like sprite-commands, draw commands (no gfx on early computers), sound commands etc.

But even a minimum set of commands:
IF
THEN
ELSE
FOR
NEXT
END
GOTO
GOSUB
RETURN
PRINT
LOCATE
INPUT

etc. .. that's 12 already, and there's not much to enjoy execpt for the basic program flow and some primitive text I/O . But really, I read it somewhere, dunno where and when. But the first basic's commandset was really nothing special!

thank god they didn't post a screenshot with:

LET S=0
LET T=0
etc.

that would look kinda lame Maybe it would be in this case, but there were BASIC variants that required the LET to set a variable. And MSX-BASIC does support the LET statement for that very same purpose.