Promotes the interchangeability of BASIC programs among a variety of data processing systems. It establishes the syntax, formats of data, semantic rules, procedures for the detection and handling of errors and defines the keywords BASE, DATA, DEF, DIM, END, FOR, GO, GOSUB, GOTO, IF, INPUT, LET, NEXT, ON, OPTION, PRINT, RANDOMIZE, READ, REM, RESTORE, RETURN, STEP, STOP, SUB, THEN and TO. Technically identical to ISO 6373.
