Date   : Thu, 11 Sep 2003 07:02:00 +1000
From   : "Bob Devries" <bdevries@...>
Subject: Re: ram test programme?

> Heh heh. For some of us it was one of our *first* languages! If you 

He he. The more I find out about this BBC, the more I like it.
I wish they'd been around when I started in computing back in '79.
I went with the Tandy Colour Computer then, and never regretted it,.
Still, better late than never.

> think that assembling machine code in BASIC is cool, wait until you find 
> out that you can call BASIC functions from the assembler! A very nice 
> way to implement a macro language!

Way to go. Also from what I've seen, all the OS calls are very
extensively documented, something Tandy could've learned from.

Still, Tandy had the Microware OS-9 OS, which was(is) VERY COOL.

Regards, Bob Devries; Ipswich, Qld, Australia