29 Sep
2001
29 Sep
'01
2:28 p.m.
> What's the deal with the BASIC in ROM on
these machines? Any other
early
PeeCee's
have this feature?
It's standard Microsoft cassette BASIC. Similar to (say) TRS-80 CoCo
BASIC.
The true-blue IBM PC. PC/XT (and therefore PortablePC), PC/AT, PCjr, etc
all have BASIC in ROM. I don't think it was ever licensed to clones, and
I don't think any clone company ever wrote a ROM BASIC from scratch. So
pretty much the only place you'll find it is in IBM machines.