XPost: alt.lang.basic   
   From: erewhon@nowhere.uk   
      
   On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 20:55:40 -0600, Bruce Tomlin   
    wrote:   
      
      
      
   >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)?)   
      
   It may be a coincidence, the disk drives that I used on the PET were   
   Computhink expansions - and very good.   
      
   Possibly they were implemented slightly differently from the standard   
   Commodore drives.   
      
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