3 Dec
1999
3 Dec
'99
11:34 a.m.
At 08:49 AM 12/3/99 -0800, Stan wrote:
Series 80 BASIC == "Technical BASIC"
Series 9000 BASIC == "Workstation BASIC" or "Rocky Mountain BASIC"
Ability to transport a program across platforms depends to a great
extent on the nature of the program. Relatively simple programs could
probably be run directly, but any program that invokes subroutines,
subprograms, graphics, matrix math, or file manipulation, for example,
will have to be rewritten.
It's a problem moving programs between any of the machines. Even ones as
similar as the 9826 and 9836. They ALL have different graphics and alpha
screen resolutions and when you go from one machine familty to another then
most of them also have incompatible disk formats.
Not impossible, but *very* tedious. IIRC,
files in ASCII format *can* be exchanged on diskette,
but program,
binary, and data files are totally incompatible.
As it turns out, BASIC on the HP 9000/207 (a.k.a. the Integral) is
essentially identical to HP 80 series BASIC, and there *is* a program
for this machine to read and convert HP 80 series programs.
There's also a program to convert HP-85 BASIC programs to run on a 9845.
Not that that's any help!
Joe