BBC Acorn - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

13 Dec 2002

On Dec 14,  0:37, Tony Duell wrote:

...
   upset if
people wrote "Disk" instead of "Disc").  As far as Acorn were
 concerned, BASIC (even BBC BASIC) is "just another language". 
 IIRC, BASIC is a somewhat odd language that doesn't implement one of the
 'standard' entry points. But it is a language ROM. 
Indeed, it has zeros in the service entry point which wouldn't be legal for
an ordinary language ROM, except that it is treated as a special case by
certain Acorn firmware, and that missing service entry is used in the first
stage of recognising which ROM is BASIC.  It's unique in that regard.

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