Re: computer bootlaces

From	Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM>
Newsgroups	alt.usage.english, alt.folklore.computers, alt.religion.kibology, comp.lang.basic.misc
Subject	Re: computer bootlaces
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Date	2011-09-28 14:55 +0100

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>>> 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.

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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
  Re: computer bootlaces Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-09-28 14:55 +0100
    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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