Brandon Valentine wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Andrew Farnsworth <[email protected]> wrote: >> For example, to save memory, they reduced >> many of the commands to a single character, such as the print command was >> reduced to ? and even if you used print or any other command, it was a >> single key press to enter the command which was really a single byte value >> mapped to the command. > > Sounds like Unix. 8-character passwords are secure enough for anybody! >
Most BASICs of the day were tokenized, rather than compiling to machine language. The ZX80, ZX81, and MicroAce effectively had you enter the tokens directly, saving memory by not having to have a full parser. The ROM BASIC only had to tokenize variables. -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
