Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder.erje.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Stan Barr Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,alt.folklore.computers,alt.religion.kibology,comp.lang.basic.misc Subject: Re: computer bootlaces Date: 28 Sep 2011 18:30:21 GMT Organization: Stochastic Blue-sky Research Lines: 21 Message-ID: <9eh7dtFupnU1@mid.individual.net> References: <9e967tFu0lU1@mid.individual.net> <4b25l8xsmn.ln2@innovative.iinet.net.au> <2ka6l8xfdf.ln2@news.ducksburg.com> <817.321T2402T6685411@kltpzyxm.invalid> <16l9l8x45e.ln2@news.ducksburg.com> Reply-To: plan.b@dsl.pipex.com X-Trace: individual.net +B+xdngye9MbFUskz0OwqAhU+Dud612uTtFy0/S+amxlxAIH2D Cancel-Lock: sha1:+TWIo14YAMpO5DmzXVq5JcbHYYQ= User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.basic.misc:157 On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:55:34 +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard 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. -- Cheers, Stan Barr plan.b .at. dsl .dot. pipex .dot. com The future was never like this!