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Re: BASIC oddity?

Subject Re: BASIC oddity?
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
From Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk>
Date 2020-01-08 10:26 +0000
Message-ID <768b112f58.Alan.Adams@ArmX6.adamshome.org.uk> (permalink)
References (9 earlier) <60432a2e58.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM> <4ad6842e58.Matthew@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk> <582e9297f8News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> <893aa72e58.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM> <bc36062f58.Matthew@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk>
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In message <bc36062f58.Matthew@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk>
          Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> In message <893aa72e58.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM>
>  on 7 Jan 2020 David Higton  wrote:

>> In message <582e9297f8News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk>
>>           Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 07 Jan in article <4ad6842e58.Matthew@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk>,
<huge snip>


> I only really got into Acorn machines with the Archimedes.  Were integers on
> the BBC B also 32 bit?

I'm fairly sure that BBC micro BASIC integers were 16-bit. The highest 
number was 32767, the lowest -32767


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Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
alan@adamshome.org.uk
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BASIC oddity? Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2020-01-03 17:16 +0000
  Re: BASIC oddity? Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2020-01-03 19:31 +0000
    Re: BASIC oddity? druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2020-01-03 21:00 +0000
      Re: BASIC oddity? Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2020-01-03 22:26 +0000
        Re: BASIC oddity? Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2020-01-04 10:40 +0000
          Re: BASIC oddity? Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2020-01-04 16:08 +0000
            Re: BASIC oddity? Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2020-01-04 16:22 +0000
              Re: BASIC oddity? David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2020-01-04 17:24 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2020-01-04 18:47 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-01-06 08:58 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2020-01-06 16:20 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-01-07 08:49 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2020-01-07 11:20 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2020-01-07 15:05 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-01-08 08:23 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2020-01-08 10:26 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2020-01-08 21:02 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2020-01-09 12:53 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2020-01-09 23:16 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2020-01-08 22:35 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2020-01-08 23:51 +0000
          Re: BASIC oddity? Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2020-01-10 11:30 +0000
            Re: BASIC oddity? Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2020-01-10 12:38 +0000
      Re: BASIC oddity? Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2020-01-06 20:39 +0100
        Re: BASIC oddity? Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2020-01-06 21:13 +0000
          Re: BASIC oddity? Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2020-01-08 12:46 +0000

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