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   From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   "R Flowers"  wrote in message   
   news:lTMlf.386237$084.29642@attbi_s22...   
      
   > My big beef with Level I BASIC was that there were few ways to access   
   > memory directly (no PEEKs, POKEs or EXECs), and therefore run machine   
   > language routines. I think there *were* ways to do this, but I can't   
   > remember.   
      
   The stack was right below memory so you could easily overwrite it while   
   loading an M/L tape. That's how they all loaded and started.   
      
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