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Dartmouth BASIC had a renumber command. I believe that line renumbering commands and/or utilities were commonly available for microcomputer BASICs as well.
by musicale 2y ago
Dartmouth BASIC had a renumber command. I believe that line renumbering commands and/or utilities were commonly available for microcomputer BASICs as well.
- femto 2y agoSome BASICs had a RENUM command. They were a bit of a pain as well. As you wrote your program you got to know which line numbers were associated with which statements. Doing a RENUM meant having to relearn the "meaning" of each line number. I'm pretty sure my VZ-200 didn't have the RENUM command.
- michaelcampbell 2y agoSadly Atari BASIC did not. I can't recall if the Apple ][ BASIC had it built in, or if Beagle Brothers utility software could do it, but it was possible somehow.
- mrandish 2y agoYes, most Microsoft ROM BASICs at least 8K in size had the renum command. It was still a pain because you had to figure out the start, end and skip values.