Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!apple!agate!darkstar!ucscb.UCSC.EDU!unknown From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Some observations Message-ID: <8441@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 1 Nov 90 23:18:22 GMT References: <9011012226.AA23010@apple.com> Sender: usenet@darkstar.ucsc.edu Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing Lines: 22 In article <9011012226.AA23010@apple.com> MQUINN%UTCVM@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU writes: >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. Before my GS hit puberty, it was an unenhanced //e. (Which is to say I upgraded my unenhanced //e to a GS) It definitely did NOT have the mini-assembler in ROM. I remember there was some amazingly small (like 4-8 DOS3.3 blocks... maybe it was a ProDOS program.. I forget, but it was teeny) program that was the mini-assembler, but you had to run it from disk... No call-151 and ! then.. It's built in the GS though and many of the other //s. -- /Apple II(GS) Forever! unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu MAIL ME FOR INFO ABOUT CHEAP CDs\ \"If cartoons were meant for adults, they'd be on in prime time."-Lisa Simpson/