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Re: Compiler Brain Dump - Your Chance to Tell Me How Wrong I am - Haha

From Bill Chatfield <bill_chatfield@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.apple2.programmer
Subject Re: Compiler Brain Dump - Your Chance to Tell Me How Wrong I am - Haha
Date 2023-12-27 11:24 -0500
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On Wed, 27 Dec 2023 05:35:50 -0600
Brian Patrie <bpatrie@bellsouth.spamisicky.net> wrote:

> Bill Chatfield wrote:
> > And it exits BASIC.SYSTEM when it's done.  
> 
> It's more apropos to say that a SYS program exits BASIC.system at 
> launch.  A ProDOS Quit call (or a reboot) is the only kosher way to
> exit a SYS app--especially since a large program is likely to step on 
> BASIC.system in memory.
> 
> BIN files are great for little things that are going to be called
> from AppleSoft; but for a major project SYS makes more sense (at
> least to me).

Yeah, that makes sense. It is more correct to say it that way. Most of
the time I want to write little things for functionality that is
missing in the AppleSoft "shell". I can never get through a major
project before I lose interest. Ha ha.

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  Re: Compiler Brain Dump - Your Chance to Tell Me How Wrong I am - Haha Brian Patrie <bpatrie@bellsouth.spamisicky.net> - 2023-12-27 05:35 -0600
    Re: Compiler Brain Dump - Your Chance to Tell Me How Wrong I am - Haha Bill Chatfield <bill_chatfield@yahoo.com> - 2023-12-27 11:24 -0500
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