Re: DOS 3.3 BASICS Image

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <lMidnXVNxvvgSjXeRVn-sQ@comcast.com>,
Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:

> Linards Ticmanis wrote:
>> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>> 
>>> I'd expect that.  I wasn't aware of any revisions to them--ever
>>> (despite several bugs).
>> 
>> 
>> But Applesoft was surely revised for the IIe, IIc and IIgs? Or do you 
>> just mean "no revisions that appear on a DOS 3.3 master disk?"
> 
> I don't think Applesoft was ever revised at all.
> 
> If it were, there were dozens of problems to fix--and each fix
> might beget an incompatibility.  ;-(
> 
> BASIC.SYSTEM was revised several times, but not Applesoft, which,
> after all, lives in ROM.

Quite true -- Applesoft remained at all times the Apple II version of
the 6502 version of Microsoft MBasic version 2.  Other versions of the
6502 version of MBASIC ran on Commodore computers.  Microsoft never
made any 6502 versions of later versions of MBasic - these later MBasic
versions (3, 4 and 5) were 8080-only (of course they ran on Z80 too).

On the Apple /// though, Applesoft was revised heavily, and renamed
to "Apple Business Basic".  I believe Apple, not Microsoft, made these
modifications to Applesoft for the Apple ///.

 
> -michael
> 
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