scott wrote:
>> That's a wonderful language. I once heard it said that BBC BASIC V 
>> (the version that shipped with the Archimedes and its successors) was 
>> 'the Rolls-Royce version of BASIC'. Up till then I was always puzzled 
>> by the bashing that BASIC got for being unstructured and tedious.
>>
>>
>> (Sighs... built-in assembler, OS graphics library, direct memory 
>> addressing...)
> 
> Hmmm, I spent a long time writing programs with BASIC V and the 
> assembler, a few of them even made it in to Acorn User magazine :-)
Hmm, I might actually know your surname if I saw it, in that case. I 
still have many issues of that mag kicking around somewhere.

> those were the days, the thing that I liked best was that you could be 
> in total control of the CPU, none of this having to worry about someone 
> pressing Alt-Tab or the screen-saver coming on etc...
Yup. You could sit down, start typing, and have graphics on the screen 
inside of a minute. Impossible these days.

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