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   From: peter@silmaril.ie   
      
   On 06/03/2025 02:18, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
      
   > By the way, did you have some kind of line-renumbering utility in your   
   > BASIC system? That would also fix up GOTOs to correctly branch to the   
   > renumbered lines.   
      
   AFAIR both HP BASIC and DEC-10 BASIC had line-renumbering (into 10s)   
   that updated GOTO statements. I believe the DEC-10 BASIC was a direct   
   descendant of Dartmouth BASIC, so presumably someone in DEC spotted the   
   need and added the feature.   
      
   Peter   
      
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