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That was pretty much how most 8-bit computers worked -- the user interface upon bootup was the Basic interpreter.
by jhbadger 10y ago
That was pretty much how most 8-bit computers worked -- the user interface upon bootup was the Basic interpreter.
- int_19h 10y agoSome vestiges of that persisted for much longer. For example, QBasic, and even VB for DOS, still had the FILES command. Which, as you'd expect, produced the list of files in the current directory - except it didn't return it, but simply printed it out to the console. So it was something rather useless in an application, but handy in a shell. Less obvious things were having a variety of filesystem-related functionality as built-in statements with special syntax, rather than functions. For example, renaming a file: NAME "foo" AS "bar".