On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 00:37:03 +0100 (BST), Ian wrote: >On Fri, 21 Aug 1998 11:27:30 +0100 (BST), Andrew Gale said: >> I've never understood why everybody hated the +2a > >Me neither.
Well some of the gripes were understandable IMO. You'll know about these, but I'll bleat on about them anyway. First of all there was the change in the edge connector, which caused the incompatabilities with multifaces and Plus Ds. Granted, these were overcome by gizmos like the 'fixit' and the Multiface 3. Then the most hateworthy thing IMO (trivial though it may seem) was the change in syntax for accessing the ramdisk. Okay, the ramdisk wasn't really used much in ordinary everyday BASIC, but Dr Andy had put some wonderful ramdisk functions into BetaBASIC, and when my brother-in-law bought a speccy (a +2a), none of my fantastic BetaBASIC creations would work on his machine. :) So there you go... some reasons. Dave
