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Re: Apple II cassette drive.

Subject: Re: Apple II cassette drive.
From: salfter@chakotay.ncc74656.org (Scott Alfter)
Date: 2000/02/23
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References: <bNeq4.25442$_G1.409732@news1.sttls1.wa.home.com> <hd5i88.126.ln@localhost> <jonINTERNETrelayCHAT-1802002209250001@nn-157-22-180-229.napanet.net> <38AE5EE7.49EE1CD4@plane.nl>

In article <38AE5EE7.49EE1CD4@plane.nl>, Pim Blokland  <nipp@plane.nl> wrote:
>True. Basic.System uses STORE and RESTORE while the cassette
>operating system uses STORE and RECALL.
>RESTORE is used by every Basic the world over to reset the DATA
>pointer, so I'm not sure why the makers of Basic.System choose this
>command for loading variables.

Maybe they wanted to experiment with operator overloading. :-)
(?CHR$(4)"RESTORE" gets you the BASIC.SYSTEM invocation, while a simple
RESTORE gets you the Applesoft invocation.)

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References:
- Apple II cassette drive.
  - From: "Ernest" <leucoplast@seanet.com>
- Re: Apple II cassette drive.
  - From: W. Hofbauer <wh@echo.chem.tu-berlin.de>
- Re: Apple II cassette drive.
  - From: jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet (Jon Bettencourt)
- Re: Apple II cassette drive.
  - From: Pim Blokland <nipp@plane.nl>

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