10 PRINT "Hello" 20 GOTO 10 In a gesture of 80s retro, European PlayStation 2 consoles will ship with a BASIC interpreter, which may be accessed through an on-screen keyboard. The interpreter, the open-source YA-Basic, was added to the PS2 kit to persuade EC tax authorities to classify the PS2 as a computer, rather than placing it into the more highly taxed category of game consoles.

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