On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> can provide one. It depends on logical statements working as follows:
> The statement C=(A>B) would set C to 0 if A weren't greater than B, and
> would set C=-1 if A were greater than B. Not all micro BASICs support this.
> I'm pretty sure Applesoft is onethat does _not_.
AppleSoft would logically return a +1 for the above statement rather than
a -1. Why the PET returns a -1 is beyond me. Couldn't they have added
one more machine instruction to strip off the sign bit?
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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