QL (was: ZX-81 Question)

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Tue Mar 26 17:54:13 2002

> At 04:05 PM 3/25/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >While it's possible that DEC BASIC was an early adopter
> >of incremental compilation techniques, I don't think so...
> >I'm pretty sure DEC BASIC is a simple interpreter. I guess
> >I should look at the source...
>
> If you're talking about DEC BASIC as implement on
> VMS, you are wrong:

What's a VMS? Is that a computer?

I was talking about the DEC BASIC that made BASIC famous,
the BASIC from TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 on the DECsystem-10.

> VAX BASIC V3.8-000

Looks like some kind of vacuum cleaner to me...
Received on Tue Mar 26 2002 - 17:54:13 GMT

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