Bill Pragnell wrote:
> "clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

> In my particular example, of course, none of that applied. Being able to write
> directly to memory from BASIC on the Acorns meant you could store large amounts
> of data more efficiently without having to resort to assembler. And, since the
> screen memory was in main RAM, you could write to the screen by storing your
> pixel values directly to that block... :)
> 
I don't think you meant to imply that other PC BASIC's didn't have Peek 
and Poke functions.
The BASIC in PET and TRS-80 certainly did and I think that Basica and 
GWBasic did, but I'm
not altogether certain about them.

David

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