Re: Cross-platform programming question...

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <bnesff$b90$1@acme.gcfn.org>,
Dave Althoff Jr <dalloff@gcfn.org> wrote:
>Just a simple one...
>
>When we refer to a hexadecimal number, we designate it like this:
>
>$FB6F
>
>When anybody else does it, they do it like this:
>
>0xFB6F

That's C notation, which started on UN*X and spread elsewhere from there...
anybody who's written stuff in C or C++ will be familiar with that.  The
TI-99/4(A) folks have yet another notation they use...">" instead of "$" or
"0x", IIRC.  I wouldn't be surprised if there are other forms used by Atari,
Commodore, and other 8-bit machines.

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