On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Does anyone know why BillG and others dropped the
"MAT" statement from
BASIC? It's documented in the 1964 description and was apparently in fairly
wide use on mainframe time-sharing systems.
Low amounts memory and 8-bit index registers?
It's certainly part of the late
70s games I posted over on Erik's Vintage forum.
I remember suffering through porting problems to (MS) CBM BASIC on the
4K PETs. Anything with MAT was a lot more work.
-ethan