Date   : Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:36:32 +0100
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Basic6809 1.00

Greg Cook wrote:

> ORG &2000
> .crctab

Pretty nifty - but what's it for? With the exception of ORG, it looks 
like regular BASIC.


>> [moot point, to be honest, because Xmodem-checksum is more
>> suited to lower memory machines than Xmodem-CRC;
> True, but not by much.  CFS and RFS use XMODEM-CRC, of course;

Fair enough - I guess the advantages of CRC over checksumming might be 
worthwhile, this was in a time before modems could reliably correct for 
line disturbances, and a lot of stuff transferred in wet&windy weather 
arrived looking like condensed perl. :-)


Best wishes,

Rick.

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