AIX for IBM system 370

tony duell ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Wed Feb 3 09:06:08 CST 2016


[IBM PC ROM BASIC]

> Well it would, otherwise IBM DOS Basic wouldn't work....
.> .. it checks for the Basic ROMS and won't run on a clone...

Not so much 'checks for them' as 'uses large numbers of 
routines from them'. The BASIC on an IBM PC-DOS disk is 
a much smaller file than the one on a normal MS-DOS disk
as a result.

-tony


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