1 Oct
2001
1 Oct
'01
5 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Since they never did provide BASIC they had to make
INT 18 do something
(remember an application program could, in theory, call that interrupt).
Since that interrupt should have entered ROM BASIC, the most sensible
thing to do was to print that there was no ROM BASIC and then halt the
CPU.
Since "they never did provide BASIC" then there was *always* "no ROM
BASIC." That's like stopping the machine with a message stating "no
printer." Why not display something understandable to a common user, such
as "no bootable device?"
Glen
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