Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.42!gegeweb.eu!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!198.186.194.250.MISMATCH!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!s09-10.readnews.com!not-for-mail From: Patrick Scheible Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,alt.folklore.computers,comp.lang.basic.misc Subject: Re: computer bootlaces References: <9e967tFu0lU1@mid.individual.net> <4b25l8xsmn.ln2@innovative.iinet.net.au> <2ka6l8xfdf.ln2@news.ducksburg.com> <817.321T2402T6685411@kltpzyxm.invalid> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:57:24 -0700 Message-ID: <861uv1dahn.fsf@zipcon.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mJiu+SzlIKBz+lZ6fbs2lKQJs3I= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 13 Organization: The Zip Connection (zipcon.net) NNTP-Posting-Host: e18ccd6f.news.zipcon.net X-Trace: DXC=177Yn6=5QE3_9K0=lMlDW4U>Dm5d6:E6=n]WmkbLFMj=YHF1Ml^3eT3_A>1gcoFWo=kPMTm:`_e=? X-Complaints-To: abuse@zipcon.net Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.basic.misc:154 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard writes: >> Verity Stob: >> >> BASIC programmers ring up technical support centres to ask questions >> like "What are those funny numbers with letters in them?" > > What dialect(s) of BASIC don't have &H or equivalent? The first dialect of BASIC I was exposed to, for one, HP-2000 BASIC. -- Patrick