Curious. So Woz had already written these routines and didn't incorporate them into Integer BASIC because "he was primarily interested in writing games, a task for which integers alone were sufficient."
Yet there was customer demand for floating-point and Apple ended up contracting Microsoft's BASIC (which included FP) as Applesoft. Supposedly this was because "Wozniak—the only person who understood Integer BASIC well enough to add floating point features—was busy with the Disk II drive and controller and with Apple DOS, Apple turned to Microsoft."
It's hard for me to imagine that Apple didn't have a single engineer that could incorporate these already-written-by-Woz routines into Woz's Integer BASIC.
Yet there was customer demand for floating-point and Apple ended up contracting Microsoft's BASIC (which included FP) as Applesoft. Supposedly this was because "Wozniak—the only person who understood Integer BASIC well enough to add floating point features—was busy with the Disk II drive and controller and with Apple DOS, Apple turned to Microsoft."
It's hard for me to imagine that Apple didn't have a single engineer that could incorporate these already-written-by-Woz routines into Woz's Integer BASIC.
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applesoft_BASIC