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From: seven@nuchat.UUCP (David Paulsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: TSR's with no assembly language
Summary: "POP-Basic"?  Anyone heard of this..?
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Date: 8 Apr 90 06:44:05 GMT
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And now, from the Believe It Or Don't file...

I recall an article in _PC Magazine_ a few months ago that reviews
something called POP BASIC, which is itself a TSR.  In other words,
a memory resident BASIC interpreter available at all times, triggered
by a hot key.  While not as robust an environment as the other BASICs
reviewed in that same issue, POP BASIC did have one interesting feature:
it could create stand-alone TSRs.  That's right, type in a weasely li'l
10-line program (I guess) and punch the magic button (or run it thru
the magic compiler, or mumble the magic words, or scrifice that
virgin you've been saving..) and out comes your program, but in
a ready-to-use TSR form.  At least that's what the reviewer thought.

Intriguing, to say the least.  Anyone even SEEN this package?  I think
the retail price was <$100.

David

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