taylor (02/13/83)
Unbeknown to many PC users (not to mention those that do not use it) the Basic interpreter on the PC does handle more than the first 64K page of memory on the PC if you have it; Consider; The interpreter takes up (I believe) 10K, and the DOS takes up 14K (??), yet when you enter the PC Basic interpreter, and you have more than 64K installed (and the machine is configured right!!) you get the following message; 61,xxx bytes free. Now we all know that 61,000 ~= 60K, then; 60K --- space 10K --- interpreter 14K --- DOS ------- 84K, not 64K. While it is true that regardless of how much memory you have the Basic interpreter can only give you the ~60K of memory free, it does in fact cross the 64K border! --- Dave Taylor ps: I am sure that the figure on the size of the DOS is wrong...I would be very interested in the correct figure (documented only, please!)