22 May
2006
22 May
'06
3:03 p.m.
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.
Sure a machine code monitor would have been even nicer, but...
-tony