28 Jan
1998
28 Jan
'98
7:17 a.m.
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, David Williams wrote:
Any idea what UCSD uses in Applesoft that it would
require the
roms? I know it doesn't require the "autostart" monitor rom which
came with the II+ because I replaced mine with the older II rom and
UCSD still ran fine. Of course I still had the Applesoft BASIC code
roms in the machine, but that was just the language interpreter. I'd
be curious to know for what or why UCSD would make use of the BASIC
roms.
I can only speculate but perhaps it used some of the floating point math
routines. I'm sure, just like the X-files, the truth is out there. If I
was home I could dig into my references.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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