Date   : Tue, 30 Nov 1999 19:50:56 -0800 (PST)
From   : Angus Duggan <angus@...>
Subject: Re: Basic compiler

Steven Flintham writes:
>Are you sure? ISTR this was a new feature in BBC BASIC V. Maybe BBC
>BASIC IV (in the Master) supported it, but IIRC BBC BASIC I/II didn't
>provide indirection operators for operating on 5-byte reals.

Yes, I'm sure. I was going by memory, but I've just looked it up:

"Real variables are written as &FF followed by four bytes of mantissa and one
byte exponent."

This is from a 1983 printing of the User Guide, referring to BASIC 1 (it
doesn't even have OSCLI or the other BASIC 2 features). 

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