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From: sorrow@oak.circa.ufl.edu
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Subject: Re: 8088 vs 8086
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Date: 22 Jun 91 17:37:59 GMT
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|>BTW, even the newest PS/2s still have the identical BASIC interpreter
|>in ROM (copyright 1981).  Has something to do with the fact that IBM's
|>BASIC.COM and BASICA.COM make calls to absolute addresses in the BASIC
|>ROM....

Exactly right.  And because of this, a PC clone cannot run IBM BASICA or
BASIC.  This is one of the reasons for the existence of a separate BASIC for
MS-DOS machines, GW-BASIC.

|>
|>-- 
|>{backbone}!cs.cmu.edu!ralf  ARPA: RALF@CS.CMU.EDU   FIDO: Ralf Brown 1:129/53
|>BITnet: RALF%CS.CMU.EDU@CARNEGIE   AT&Tnet: (412)268-3053 (school)   FAX: ask
|>DISCLAIMER?  Did  | It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's
|>I claim something?| what we know that ain't so.  --Will Rogers

By the way Ralf, damned good book! (UnDOS).
/*
Brian Hook -- MS-DOS Programmer for Contract
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"Seamus, that's my dog...I saw her today at the reception...sorry, sixTEEN
inches....better save the women and children first...but this one goes to 11!
..anymore of that plutonium nyborg?....there can be only ONE!....like a 
finger pointing to the moon....ease the seat back...one day closer to death
*/