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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

#152 — Re: computer bootlaces

> 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?

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#153

"Jonathan de Boyne Pollard"  wrote in message 
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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?

True BASIC and Decimal BASIC are just two. There are others.

Tom L 

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#154

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM>
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

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#155

BASIC for the TI-99/4 (TI BASIC and Extended BASIC)

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#156

>>> 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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#157

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.

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

The future was never like this!

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#158

On 2011-09-28, 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.

I never used BBC Basic, so I'll take your word for it.  I'm fairly
sure both kinds I used on the Apple ][ range didn't have hexadecimal,
and a bit less sure that Turbo Basic didn't have it.


-- 
When Elaine turned 11, her mother sent her to train under
Donald Knuth in his mountain hideaway.         [XKCD 342]

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#159

>> Xe is supposedly British, and BBC BASIC, which has & for hexadecimal
>> notation, had been around for seven years at that point.
>
> I never used BBC Basic, so I'll take your word for it.  I'm fairly
> sure both kinds I used on the Apple ][ range didn't have hexadecimal,
> and a bit less sure that Turbo Basic didn't have it.

Turbo BASIC, like some others, has (prefixed) $ for hexadecimal notation.

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#160

On 2011-09-29, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:

>>> Xe is supposedly British, and BBC BASIC, which has & for hexadecimal
>>> notation, had been around for seven years at that point.
>>
>> I never used BBC Basic, so I'll take your word for it.  I'm fairly
>> sure both kinds I used on the Apple ][ range didn't have hexadecimal,
>> and a bit less sure that Turbo Basic didn't have it.
>
> Turbo BASIC, like some others, has (prefixed) $ for hexadecimal notation.

OK, I'll take your word for that too.  I don't remember using
hexadecimal in it, and I don't know where the disks are or whether it
would run in DOSBox.



-- 
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to
chance.                                     [Robert R. Coveyou]

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