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>Now we have 4K, 8K, EXTENDED, ROM and DISK BASIC. I guess old habits die hard.
by johnpowell 14y ago
>Now we have 4K, 8K, EXTENDED, ROM and DISK BASIC.
I guess old habits die hard.
- notJim 14y agoAre you referring to the obtuse names?
- Confusion 14y agoProbably to the tendency to produce n slightly different versions in an attempt to segmentize the market.
- vidarh 14y agoThat actually made sense when a difference of a few KB meant a difference between whether or not you'd be able to fit your own application into memory. There was at least one early BASIC extension, for example, where you could pick the commands you wanted "a la carte", with number of bytes required for each one of them listed, to pack the ones that were most important for you to fit into a specific size. You'd pay for the size you chose.