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- From: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
- Subject: Re: Basica
- Message-ID: <305@chorus.chorus.fr>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 16:07:01 GMT
- References: <BtJG5L.w3@brunel.ac.uk>
- Sender: mir@chorus.chorus.fr
- Reply-To: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski)
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- Organization: Chorus systemes, Saint Quentin en Yvelines, France
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- In article <BtJG5L.w3@brunel.ac.uk>, Alan.Holmes@brunel.ac.uk (Alan J Holmes) writes:
- %% I have an IBM clone with a hard disc. I just mention this in case its important.
- %%
- %% I have tried, after booting from the hard disc, to run basica from disc,
- %% the only responce I get is:-
- %%
- %% divide overflow
- %%
- %% I have asked a few people how to get it started but have come up against
- %% a blank wall, most people have got the same result I have and have given up.
- %%
- %% What am I doing wrong?
-
- It depends on the size of your "BASICA."
-
- If it is over 80Kb, I cannot explain.
-
- But if it is below that size, it means that it is really an
- IBM Basica, which heavily depends on Cassette Basic (CBASIC)
- routines that true blues have in ROM. I am not aware of any
- IBM compatibles that had CBASIC in ROM. They are provided
- with GW-BASIC which is ROM independent.
-
- Some GW-BASICs were provided under the "BASICA" name (maybe
- on Compaqs), to provide compability with IBM. Also "BASIC"
- used to simply call "BASICA." On IBM's PC-DOS however BASIC
- was independent of BASICA, although it depended on CBASIC
- ROM routines too.
-
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- Adam Mirowski, mir@chorus.fr (FRANCE), tel. +33 (1) 30-64-82-00 or 74
- Chorus systemes, 6, av.Gustave Eiffel, 78182 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines CEDEX
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