Re: Franklin Ace DOS

["Bryan Villados" <news003@macgeek.org>]

Interesting!!! Here's another curious question... If I remember correctly,
Integer BASIC was developed in part by Microsoft, and Applesoft BASIC was
developed by Apple.

With that... I've heard dozens of stories about the legal battle between
Apple and Franklin. I'm wondering why I've never heard of Microsoft chasing
after Franklin in regards to distributing INTBASIC as part of their release
of DOS (the DOS Franklin shipped, at least on the original set that came
with my Franklin Ace 1200, is DOS Version 1.0)?

--- Bryan

"Willi Kusche" <willi@wilserv.com> wrote in message
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> Hi!
>
>     The two "FPBASIC" files are identical.  The Franklin version of
> "INTBASIC" has '   ACE  ' at offset $2B0D instead of 'APPLE ]['.
>
>     The ROMs are different.  I can send a 3264 byte file showing the
> differences, if anyone is interested.
>
>     Comparing the DOS would requiring the use of a sector compare to
> show the differences.
>
> Willi