Re: Integer BASIC's "*** NO END ERR"

["Vince Briel" <vbriel@comcast.net>]

Write Woz and ask. IIRC he wrote Integer Basic for both the Apple 1 and 
Apple II at the same time while the II was still in prototype form. I also 
read that he had never used Basic before and was just going off of things he 
read about the language when he developed Integer Basic, so that would 
really answer the question.

Vince

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"Zorin the Lynx" <yakko@zorin.org> wrote in message 
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> Ya know, I've always wondered why an END statement was required in Integer 
> BASIC programs on the Apple II. And if you didn't put one in, you got the 
> "NO END ERR" message.
>
> Why not just exit quietly when the program finished? The "NO END ERR" 
> message wasted valuable ROM space, and had no useful function.
>
> Anyone have any insight as to why Woz put this seemingly useless error 
> into INTBASIC? Did he just have extra space and wanted to fill it with 
> something?
>
> -Z
>
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