Re: copying BIOS to a file

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:39:30 GMT,  wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:09:14 +0000 (UTC), "Auric__"
> <not.my.real@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:07:02 GMT, I wrote:
>>
>>> All MS BASICs before VB default to single.
>>
>>Correction: All MS BASICs *that I've dealt with* prior to VB:
>>BASIC.EXE, BASICA.EXE, GWBASIC.EXE, the various flavors of QB, and
>>IIRC MS Amiga BASIC. I never played with their original Altair
>>BASIC or derivatives. (Before my time.)
>
> And VB defaults to Variant, which IMO, is even stupider than
> defaulting to single.  But, I suppose that it's useful for those
> who don't know what they are doing.

It makes better sense than single IMO, although if *I* were to design a 
language, the default data type -- if any -- would be the target 
processor's native integer type. (I don't like variants. Evil.)

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