Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU!MQUINN%UTCVM From: MQUINN%UTCVM@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Some observations Message-ID: <9011012226.AA23010@apple.com> Date: 1 Nov 90 22:20:56 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 25 On Thu, 1 Nov 90 18:38:05 GMT David C. Whitney said: >Yet another correction: The need for the intbasic card means that the >feature was not built into the ROM itself. The intbasic firmware card >(the original ][ firmware) has the miniassembler. The ][+ and //e do >not have it by default (you either buy an intbasic firmware card or a >16k ram expansion and load the intbasic firmware into it). The //c and >later machines do have it. I think (but am not sure) that the enhanced >//e has it as well. I'm pretty sure that the //e (unenhanced) had it. I have a Franklin Ace 1000 (pre-//e enhancement clone) that had it without loading in intbasic. Also, according to an OLD (1981) book called Apple Machine Language (where I got the info today) said the same thing. >Dave Whitney >Computer Science MIT 1990 | I wrote Z-Link and BinSCII. Send me bug >dcw@lcs.mit.edu | reports. I need a job. Send me an offer. >Every now and then one makes a mistake. Mine was probably this post. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | | This is your brain... | BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm | | This is your brain on drugs... | pro-line: | | This is your brain on frog licking.| mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com | |____________________________________|_______________________________|