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From: johnl@ima.UUCP
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Subject: Re: BASICA
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Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 13:11:00 EST
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/* Written  8:13 am  Dec 19, 1985 by JFORREST@brl-tgr in ima:net.micro */
> I have had no luck running BASICA on any of several IBM compatibles I
> have tried it on, using PC-DOS 3.10. It just will not run.
> Most of the compatibles I have tried have the phoenix rom. Does BASICA
> check the ROM and bomb out due to it not being IBM, or is there a way
> to get it to run?

The genuine IBM PC, XT, and AT have a Basic interpreter in ROM, which
the versions of Basic provided by IBM depend on.  None of the clones that
I've seen have Basic ROMs, so they all have different versions of Basic
which are entirely in RAM.  What this means is that, say, Compaq Basic will
work on an IBM but IBM Basic won't work on a Compaq.

John Levine, ima!johnl