Re:The decline of computers as a general-purpose technology
by LocalH on Thursday February 25, 2021 @09:14AM
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ML wasn't totally inaccessible by that metric, it was quite common to store ML in DATA statements and POKE it into the desired memory locations. Depending on the platform it would either be directly called with SYS or CALL type statements, or it'd be vectored through USR() (or perhaps the ampersand in Applesoft).
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Re:The decline of computers as a general-purpose technology
by exporectomy on Friday February 26, 2021 @03:47PM
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That's true. I was mainly thinking of a struggle I had trying to create a binary .com file containing ML. The BASIC had no function for writing an arbitrary binary file. In hindsight, I suppose you could use one of those ML techniques you mentioned to do file I/O but that would have seemed out of reach in difficulty to me as a teenager.