On 01/20/2018 09:41 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
WooHoo! The BASIC that almost drove me forever out of programming. I *liked* my line numbers from GWBASIC (hey, I was 10 years old.. give me a break!).
Yeah basic could be weird without line numbers.
I think we call that FORTRAN. ;-) OS9/OS68K (Microware, not Apple) had Basic with no line numbers and procedures. Didn't use it much as I was using the C compiler instead. Getting back to the Mac, I recall that a friend was building programs with Pascal and it was making calls to the Mac tool box (libraries in ROM) that made the compiled code really tiny. But I can't see that being a usable dev env with a 128K Mac. I do recall that it was used on the later (512K?) Mac. I recall his later env had a dual floppy, then a hard drive and a modified computer to get more ram. But I can't recall if he started with the Mac 128K or not. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies