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- From: sproven@cs.strath.ac.uk (Simon B Proven IE91)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: Re: RISC OS 3.10
- Message-ID: <10429@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 12:30:40 GMT
- References: <1992Sep6.230410.4489@cs.nott.ac.uk> <Bu6LxC.HC7@comp.vuw.ac.nz> <1992Sep8.012242.17735@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
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- In article <1992Sep8.012242.17735@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA) writes:
- >Gavin.Flower@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Gavin Flower) writes:
- >
- >>Any changes to the version of BASIC that comes with Risc-OS 3.1 over
- >>Risc-OS 2.0? I don't recall any recent mention of this, though I'm
- >>sure that there are changes, if my memory serves me correctly.
- >
- >There are also some new instructions I think...
-
- Also there is a version in !System (BASIC64) which provides IEEE double
- precision floats in BASIC. It may break some programs which assume that
- a float takes 5 bytes of store, but it does allow better precision in
- programs that don't break or know about it.
-
- mad@bike
-