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From: dkoski@hercules.as.arizona.edu (David Koski)
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Subject: Re: Basic for NeXT
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Date: 26 Nov 90 16:34:59 GMT
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In article <328@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes:
>Pretty confusing, these languages within languages, eh?  Not to mention
>that even the C source gets translated into 680x0 instructions before
>you're done with it, which loses all of the advantages of BASIC :-)
>
>-- 
> Glenn Reid				RightBrain Software
> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us		PostScript/NeXT developers
> ..{adobe,next}!heaven!glenn		415-851-1785

Even better, these 680x0 instructions are interpreted by microcode on the chip!
Thats right, your machine language programs are interpreted!

David Koski