XPost: alt.lang.basic   
   From: bruce#fanboy.net@127.0.0.1   
      
   In article ,   
    Richard VanHouten  wrote:   
      
   > J French wrote:   
   > > On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:35:31 +0100, Knut Roll-Lund   
   > >  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > Commodore BASIC and Apple II BASIC were both written by MS   
   > > - something I only learnt recently   
   > >   
   > > For a long time I wondered why they both used Chr$(4) in the CHARGOT   
   > > routine   
   >   
   > Applesoft was written by MS, Apple Integer Basic was not.  I don't know   
   > about the history of Commodore BASICs.   
      
   It is indeed strange how Applesoft is different from the other 6502   
   MS-BASICs that I've seen (primarily limited to C64 and Ohio Scientific,   
   FWIW), and for that matter, it's different from just about every other   
   MS-BASIC for any CPU that I've seen.   
      
   But AFAIK, the CHR$(4) thing for disk commands comes from the Apple ][   
   DOS, not BASIC.  (I didn't realize that Commodore did anything special   
   with CHR$(4)?)   
      
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