"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "David H. Burns" <dhb### [at] cherokeetelnet> wrote:
> > A peek function would still be useful, but a poke function on a multi
> > tasking system where
> > the operating system is in RAM ... well at best, you might reboot a lot.
>
> Would be very boring these days: At worst, poking around would get that
> particular app jam itself, and you'd have to kill it via the task manager.

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... :)

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