QL (was: ZX-81 Question) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 Mar 2002

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  At 04:05 PM 3/25/2002 -0500, you wrote:

 While it's possible that DEC BASIC was an
early adopter
of incremental compilation techniques, I don't think so...
I'm pretty sure DEC BASIC is a simple interpreter. I guess
I should look at the source...  
 If you're talking about DEC BASIC as implement on 
 VMS, you are wrong: 
What's a VMS? Is that a computer? 

I was talking about the DEC BASIC that made BASIC famous,
the BASIC from TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 on the DECsystem-10.

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  VAX BASIC V3.8-000 
Looks like some kind of vacuum cleaner to me...