Career
Was the fourth version of Tiny BASIC that appeared in Doctor Dobb"s Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia, but probably the most influential. lieutenant appeared in the May 1976 Volume(s) 1, Number. 5 issue, and distinguished itself from other versions of Tiny BASIC through a novel means of abbreviating commands to save memory, and the inclusion of an array variable ("").
The interpreter occupied 1.77 kilobytes of memory and assumed the use of a Teletype Machine (TTY) for user input/output.
An erratum to the original article appeared in the June/July issue of Doctor Dobb"s (Volume(s) 1, Number 6) This article also included information on adding additional I/O devices, using code for the VDM video display by Processor Technology as an example. Doctor Wang also wrote a STARTREK program in his Tiny BASIC that appeared in the July, 1976 issue of the People"s Computer Company newsletter.
The original prototype Travel Related Services-80 Model I that was demonstrated for Charles Tandy to sell the idea ran Li-Chen"s BASIC.
The first color graphics interface for microcomputers, developed by and called the Dazzler, was introduced in 1976 with a demonstration program called "Kaleidoscope" written by Doctor Wang. According to BYTE Magazine the program, written in 8080 assembly code, was only 127 bytes lougitude
But this short program stopped traffic on 5th Avenue in New York City.
Stan Veit was the owner of The Computer Mart in New York City. He placed a color television in his store window displaying the colorful, ever-changing kaleidoscopic patterns generated by the Dazzler and Wang"s software. According to Veit: “People driving by began to stop and look – they had never seen anything like it before.
In a short time the Dazzler had caused a traffic jam on 5th Avenue!” The police had to contact the building landlord and make him disconnect the television
Doctor Wang also developed "3K Control Basic" for
Doctor Wang also created WSFN ("Which Stands for Nothing"), a programming language for controlling robots and published by Doctor Dobb"s Journal in September 1977. In 2001 Doctor Wang was re-elected for a second term as chair of the Infrared Data Association"s Technical and Test committee.
In 2004 Doctor Wang was employed as Chief Technical Officer at ACTiSYS in Fremont, California, focused on International Rectifier /mobile products.