17 Dec
2007
17 Dec
'07
4:22 p.m.
The "original" BASICs for the Altair, for example were single-target -- no
conditional compilations. My recollection is the same relating to later
versions. It wasn't until they began supporting a multitude of micros did
they begin using conditional compilations. It became too big of a job given
the different input/output methods and I/O devices.
On 12/17/07 6:59 PM, "Jim Battle" <frustum at pacbell.net> wrote:
Randy Dawson wrote:
Rich
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Rich Cini
Collector of Classic Computers
Build Master and lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator
http://www.altair32.com
http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp
This may be of interest to the group, on the Nascom web page, I found the
Microsoft 8K basic source:
http://www.nascomhomepage.com/lang/8kbasic.asm
Randy
Randy,
I'm assuming that this isn't *the* source code. It looks like someone
reverse engineered it and added the comments.
I was under the impression that *the* source code was full of
conditional code to generate BASIC for a variety of machines.