Manual for Basic Four?

As one of the more influential BASICs out there, I was surprised that I cannot find a manual for the language on the 'net. There’s manuals for the operators and equipment and various related things, but not the language itself.

Has anyone come across this anywhere?

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https://bitsavers.org/pdf/mai/BFISD5085_Business_Basic_Level_3_4_ReferenceManual_1981.pdf ?

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do you mean MAI Basic/Four? Search engines are basically (npi) useless these days.

(it’s probably not Dartmouth BASIC 4th Edition, because you know all about that)

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Duck Duck Go still seems to return actual hits.

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I’ve been meaning to switch to DDG, so perhaps now is the time.

There’s also https://www.qwant.com which I keep meaning to try.

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A good shortcut for duckduckgo.com is ddg.gg.

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So I did switch to DDG. After a week, no way I’m going back.

The search results are similar overall, but all of the clutter is gone and I can actually find things in the list of results.