On 10 Dec 2000, at 3:04, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> >Shipped with IBM PC-DOS. I think by the time jr and XT came along, ROM
> >BASIC had diappeared. I know original PC had it.
>
> ROM BASIC existed (still exists?) on IBM computers but not IBM clones because of
> copyright.
I heard that it was still included up to 486's or something. I doubt it
would still be. I did have a K6-2-400 IBM Aptiva (which is actually a
fairly standard ATX case). Would there be any way of seeing if it's
still there? <G> Maybe a debug routine or something.
[FWIW Arachne ran really fast on this machine]
