[cctalk] Re: BASIC

Just for fun, I keyed in and ran the "Ahl Benchmark" on a few "boots-to-BASIC" systems that I still have setup: Exploring Project Ahl in 2024 — voidstar https://voidstar.blog/exploring-project-ahl-in-2024/ On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 5:58 PM

[cctalk] Re: Saga of CP/M

Hey Grumpy Fred, thanks for sharing your story and honored to be around those who met with Gary. I recall some versions of the story was that he decided to go flying that day since he was quarreling with his wife (or that he decided to personally do that errands, just to "get out of the house"

[cctalk] Re: BASIC

Great discussions about BASIC. I talked about the IBM 5110 flavor of BASIC last year (such as its FORM keyboard for quickly making structured input forms), and recently "re-learned" that it defaults to running with double-precision. But if you use "RUNS" instead of "RUN" then the same code is

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