Re: copying BIOS to a file

On Dec 18, 12:39 pm, ArarghMail712NOS...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:09:14 +0000 (UTC), "Auric__"
>
> <not.my.r...@[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.

As for it's original purpose as a teaching language for
non-computer-majors, a Basic should, to some degree, not
require a user to know a lot about what the internals of
their variables are doing.

Chipmunk Basic defaults to double precision floats:
  http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic


IMHO. YMMV.
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