Re: computer bootlaces

From	Stan Barr <plan.b@dsl.pipex.com>
Newsgroups	alt.usage.english, alt.folklore.computers, alt.religion.kibology, comp.lang.basic.misc
Subject	Re: computer bootlaces
Date	2011-09-28 18:30 +0000
Organization	Stochastic Blue-sky Research
Message-ID	<9eh7dtFupnU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	(5 earlier) <817.321T2402T6685411@kltpzyxm.invalid> <ult8l8xrr3.ln2@news.ducksburg.com> <IU.D20110927.T155030.P20955.Q0@J.de.Boyne.Pollard.localhost> <16l9l8x45e.ln2@news.ducksburg.com> <IU.D20110928.T135548.P2564.Q0@J.de.Boyne.Pollard.localhost>

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On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:55:34 +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> wrote:
>>>> 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?
>>
>> FWIW, she wrote that in 1988.  I don't recall seeing hexadecimal
>> notation in BASIC around that time.
>
> Xe is supposedly British, and BBC BASIC, which has & for hexadecimal 
> notation, had been around for seven years at that point.

LBASIC (LDOS, TRS-80, circa 1980) had &H for Hex and &O for Octal.

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Cheers,
Stan Barr     plan.b .at. dsl .dot. pipex .dot. com

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Re: computer bootlaces Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-09-27 16:50 +0100
  Re: computer bootlaces "Tom Lake" <tlake@twcny.rr.com> - 2011-09-27 13:54 -0400
  Re: computer bootlaces Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> - 2011-09-27 12:57 -0700
  Re: computer bootlaces Ben Yates <winston19842005@yahoo.com> - 2011-09-27 13:55 -0700
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    Re: computer bootlaces Stan Barr <plan.b@dsl.pipex.com> - 2011-09-28 18:30 +0000
    Re: computer bootlaces Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2011-09-28 19:40 +0100
      Re: computer bootlaces Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-09-29 09:56 +0100
        Re: computer bootlaces Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2011-09-29 14:14 +0100

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