Re: 6502 illegal opcodes questions

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <1149560293.988918.82200@y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> wrote:

> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
.............
>> (I've always wondered how much "compatibility issues" and how much
>> "renegotiation issues" factored into the decision to never update
>> the Applesoft ROMs to fix bugs...)
> 
> I never really did understand why they licensed a new BASIC from
> Microsoft instead of expanding Integer to include the missing features.

Maybe Wozniak didn't have the time needed to do this?  Wasn't he busy
with the disk hardware and Apple DOS 3.1 around then?  So to not fall
behind Commodore PET, Apple bought its Basic from Microsoft.

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