IBM ROM BASIC or lack thereof

From: Jan Koller <vze2mnvr_at_verizon.net>
Date: Tue Oct 2 23:53:35 2001

Glen,

> Why not display something understandable to a common user, such
> as "no bootable device?"

The same common user that needs their ports both labeled and color coded?



Glen Goodwin wrote:

> 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
Received on Tue Oct 02 2001 - 23:53:35 BST