Date   : Sun, 26 Jun 2005 12:42:55 +0100 (BST)
From   : Brian Widdas <brian@...>
Subject: Re: BASIC IV: Coded Line Number

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Peter Craven wrote:

> Thanks Richard
>  I do not quite understand the reason for having encoded line numbers
> within the program when you have the &8D line number token alerting you
> that the three bytes following represent an encoded line number. Why
> could they not just have the line number token &8D followed by the line
> numbers in standard LSB, MSB format??
>  I looked at the site you sent. In other places there it mentions BASIC
> V. I did not realise there was a BASIC V produced. Do you know who
> dseigned and produced it? What improvement did it have over BASIC IV? Do
> you have a copy of it? Can it be put on to an EPROM and used in a Master
> instead of BASIC IV??

BASIC V is BBC BASIC for RISC OS. It had new control structures, such as
CASE, the SWI instruction for interacting with RISC OS, and the assembler
was ARM rather than 6502.

It was produced by Acorn.

Brian
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