Frank Ostrowski

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Frank Ostrowski (* 1960 or 1961; † 2011) was a German programmer. He became famous for the developed by him BASIC - interpreter Turbo-basic XL for the Atari 400/800 / XL / XE series and GFA-BASIC for the Atari ST .

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Ostrowski developed Turbo-BASIC XL during his three years of unemployment following his military service. Compared to the built-in Atari BASIC, it was particularly characterized by its higher speed. He submitted it to the computer magazine Happy Computer in 1985 , which awarded it 'Listing of the Month' and prize money.

Then the company Integral Hydraulics , later known as GFA Systemtechnik , became aware of Ostrowski. From February 1986 he worked there as a permanent programmer and developed the GFA-BASIC for the Atari ST, first as an interpreter, then also as a compiler . Later GFA-BASIC was also implemented for the Amiga , MS-DOS , MS-Windows and Unix . The 32-bit version of this basics for Windows has meanwhile been further developed by the GFA Software Technologies branch, which was spun off from this company .

Ostrowski wrote magazine articles and books about the BASIC products he developed.

Frank Ostrowski died in 2011 at the age of 50 after a serious illness.

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  1. ↑ Hartmut Woerrlein: Career as a programmer - Porsche, pomp and blue notes . Happy Computer 5 : 7 (1988)
  2. ↑ Article about the listing of the month 12/1985 from the magazine Happy Computer , in the online text archive at www.stcarchiv.de. Retrieved March 8, 2018
  3. ↑ Clemens Weller: 1986 . Computer History Online (2005).
  4. ↑ UB: A day at GFA Systemtechnik in Düsseldorf . ST Computer 2 : 2 (1987).
  5. ↑ AtariWiki: TURBO-BASIC XL , section 'Source Code' , 1st paragraph. Retrieved March 8, 2018
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SURNAME Ostrowski, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German programmer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
DATE OF DEATH 2011