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From: chiu@ucsee
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Subject: ACOS (WAS: Re: MD-BASIC (was:Re: Apple ][ BBS Software))
Summary: ACOS is not a compiler
Message-ID: <1991May31.040452.29892@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 31 May 91 04:04:52 GMT
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In article <1520025@hpcc01.HP.COM> drudman@hpcc01.HP.COM (Drew Rudman) writes:
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>GBBS on the other hand provides you with a completely new programming language
>(very similar to basic so the transition is not that difficult) that offers
>text file based source code and a compiler.  No run-time interpretation of
>your system segments.  This results in a faster system.

ACOS (at least version 1.3) is not a compiler. All it does is
generate addresses for all the labels, and use those address for branching.
(In that aspect it is definately faster than Applesoft), but it is still
a interpretator when it comes to actual execution of program code.

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