Re: copying BIOS to a file

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:27:19 GMT, Judson McClendon wrote:

> "Auric__" <not.my.real@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> I prefer PowerBasic myself. The Windows versions default to signed
>> LONG (DOS version defaults to INTEGER, 16 bits) and include both
>> signed and unsigned integers. (PowerBasic's WORD is unsigned;
>> 16-bit signed int is INTEGER.)
>
> I like PowerBASIC myself. But there is no signed 8 bit type,

The only BASIC that I can recall seeing a signed byte in is XBasic, but 
I could be remembering wrong. I've never had a use for signed bytes, 
though.

FreeBASIC is interesting in that it sort of does what I mentioned 
earlier: on 32-bit platforms (Win32 and Linux, presumably also FreeBSD) 
its INTEGER type is 32 bits, but under DOS it's 16 bits. (I don't 
remember what the default data type is, but I *think* it's INTEGER.)

> or
> unsigned 64 bit type. Not that big a deal, but both would have been
> useful to me. 

Yeah, I've had a couple of situations where a ulonglong (or whatever) 
would've been handy. In PB, I usually fake it with a CURRENCYX (64-bit 
fixed-point); for other BASICs, it depends on what data types they 
offer.

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