29 Jun
2007
29 Jun
'07
7:19 p.m.
On Jun 29, 2007, at 9:35 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
No, but I'm betting you do. Care to share? ;)
It's nice that the original interpreter was designed to
accommodate such enhancements!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Ahh yes I
remember that...I had an XT clone for a while (an 8MHz
V20; quite the screamer at the time!) and I managed to find copies of
the IBM BIOS w/BASIC, and ran those in the board...worked nicely. As
I recall, the BIOS was one EPROM and the BASIC interpreter was the
other four, and they were optional.
ahh, but do you know WHY the 5150 had those 5 ROMs, but 6 ROM sockets? I recall
something about BASIC.COM (or was it BASICA.COM?)
beingbasically a wrapper around the stuff in the ROMs...Did it add
any
routines like disk I/O or anything like that?
YES.
It even replaced a few routines that didn't work right