> Tony Duell wrote:
>
> > Since they never did provide BASIC they had to make INT 18 do something
> > (remember an application program could, in theory, call that interrupt).
> > Since that interrupt should have entered ROM BASIC, the most sensible
> > thing to do was to print that there was no ROM BASIC and then halt the
> > CPU.
>
> Since "they never did provide BASIC" then there was *always* "no ROM
> BASIC." That's like stopping the machine with a message stating "no
> printer." Why not display something understandable to a common user, such
> as "no bootable device?"
>
> Glen
> 0/0
Like the keyboard error hit F1 to continue if they've got no keyboard
connected. Plug in the keyboard live any they could smoke
the machine...
Great move. It's ok if you just left a book on the keyboard... though
Bill
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Received on Tue Oct 02 2001 - 14:08:02 BST