On 06/14/2012 04:10 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
But in general
what does the IBM 5150/5160=
specific BASIC rom do regarding addressing specific h/w? That's the crux o=
f the matter I guess. If I could run TI Pro GW-BASIC on my XP laptop (sever=
al years ago) to whatever degree, something tells me BASIC accesses the h/w=
via BIOS or DOS calls.
Unfortunately (and perhaps obviously) the BASIC ROM source listings were
never released, and the TechRefs say very little about what ROM BAIC
actually dows.
It's not THAT big. Someone should finally get around to disassembling
and commenting it.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA