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Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler.

From	Dave Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Subject	Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler.
Date	2012-08-22 14:00 +0100
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          Gazza <usenet@garethlock.com> wrote:

> On Aug 21, 10:50 pm, Dave Higton <d...@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
> > In message
> > <6491a0eb-8381-4390-b302-c895e4537...@v12g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>      
> >     Gazza <use...@garethlock.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Another quick question...
> > 
> > > Is there an easy way to tell if BASIC is already RAM resident (as
> > > opposed to the version in the ROM). Preferably not from within BASIC,
> > > as I'm going to use the code in the installer I've cooked up to kill
> > > BASIC before re-loading the new version into RAM. IIRC trying to do
> > > this to a RAM resident BASIC will brick the machine.
> > 
> > What on earth are you trying to achieve?  Why on earth do you care
> > whether BASIC is RAM resident or ROM resident?
> > 
> > Dave
> 
> I suppose it wouldn't matter too much if it were dumped in PreDesk, but
> just as a failsafe in case some idiot tries to run it from the desktop. By
> that time of course, nasty things could happen if BASIC was RAM resident.

Why?  What nasty things?

Dave

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Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Gazza <usenet@garethlock.com> - 2012-08-10 06:53 -0700
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2012-08-10 15:09 +0100
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Gazza <usenet@garethlock.com> - 2012-08-10 07:36 -0700
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2012-08-10 17:48 +0200
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2012-08-10 17:27 +0100
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2012-08-10 18:29 +0100
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Gavin Wraith <gavin@wra1th.plus.com> - 2012-08-11 16:31 +0100
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Jochen Lueg <jochenlueg@roevalley.com> - 2012-08-12 10:43 +0000
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2012-08-12 12:29 +0100
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2012-08-12 09:23 +0100
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Brian Jordan <brian.jordan9@btinternet.com> - 2012-08-10 19:01 +0100
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. xltardy@gmail.com - 2012-08-14 10:33 -0700
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2012-08-10 17:04 +0100
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk - 2012-08-10 15:42 -0700
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2012-08-11 00:51 +0100
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk - 2012-08-11 16:46 -0700
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. cferris@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid - 2012-08-12 09:44 +0100
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2012-08-12 13:39 +0100
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2012-08-12 13:44 +0100
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Gazza <usenet@garethlock.com> - 2012-08-14 05:07 -0700
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2012-08-15 19:47 +0100
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Gazza <usenet@garethlock.com> - 2012-08-15 17:08 -0700
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2012-08-16 11:21 +0100
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Gazza <usenet@garethlock.com> - 2012-08-17 04:10 -0700
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Gazza <usenet@garethlock.com> - 2012-08-17 04:16 -0700
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Gazza <usenet@garethlock.com> - 2012-08-21 08:30 -0700
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2012-08-21 18:21 +0100
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Gazza <usenet@garethlock.com> - 2012-08-21 14:12 -0700
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2012-08-21 19:20 +0100
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2012-08-22 23:22 +0100
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Dave Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2012-08-21 22:50 +0100
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Gazza <usenet@garethlock.com> - 2012-08-22 00:06 -0700
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2012-08-22 11:25 +0100
Re: Obtaining BBC BASIC with updated ARM assembler. Dave Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2012-08-22 14:00 +0100

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