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   Joe Monk to All   
   Re: 8080 BASIC   
   10 Dec 22 06:08:48   
   
   From: joemonk64@gmail.com   
      
   > I sometimes wondered how they managed to write a   
   > BASIC interpreter in such a small amount of memory.   
   >   
      
   It was partially thru the use of tokenization. All keywords had tokens. You   
   could very easily reduce program lines of many character to just a few.   
      
   My favorite interpreted BASIC is WANG BASIC-2.   
      
   https://www.wang2200.org/basic-2.html   
      
   Joe   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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