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The space originally allocated to ROM BASIC (and a user ROM slot) was taken over by a larger allocation for the BIOS over time. Seeing as BIOS compatibility is
by fredoralive 2y ago
The space originally allocated to ROM BASIC (and a user ROM slot) was taken over by a larger allocation for the BIOS over time. Seeing as BIOS compatibility is on its way out (or gone) with modern UEFI systems, you’d assume a ROM BASIC support would’ve gone with it had it continued.
I think the fact that just about everyone bought a PC with disc drives / DOS, and never used ROM BASIC directly meant PC clones just saved the $30 (or whatever) of ROM chips and loaded all of BASIC from disc.