23 May
2006
23 May
'06
2:29 a.m.
On Tue, 23 May 2006 00:03:28 +0200, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
wrote:
A rather serious use was that the COBOL compiler used the IBM BASIC to
perform string handling and decimal arithmetic.
Maybe not what most users did, but there were a substantial number of
aplications made with that compiler.
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period). But
who the heck made any serious use of ROM
based BASIC in the *pseudo* 16 bit era and beyond?
Depends on what you mean by 'serious use', but I was certainly glad of
ROM basic when my 5160 XT wouldn't boot. I used it to write values to
output ports on the disk controller card while probing signals with a
logic probe. Found a defective inverter chip very quickly.