15 Jul
2010
15 Jul
'10
7:07 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
You are probably right. I am (as you know) a hardware person. I
understand most of the hardware of the 9000/200 series, I know rather
less about the software. And the distribution disks (HP originals) i've
just looekd at simply say 'HP BASIC' on them.
Can you enlighten me as to what 'Techncial BASIC' and 'Rocky Mountain
BASIC' really are?
-tony
The 9000/200 machines that I've worked on are
very solid (and you'd
expect from HP), you can run either HP technical BASIC (which does allow
you to run short machine code routines), or Pascal (which is based on
UCSD Pascal, and IIRC includes an assembler)
I thought those ran Rocky Mountain BASIC, which was not the same thing
as Technical BASIC. However, I'm no expert on the 9000 series, so
perhaps I'm wrong.