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Re:Raspberry Pi Boot to BASIC by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:10PM (#29826281)
> My PC XT didn't boot into BASIC, I wonder why.

Mine didn't either, it booted into DOS 3.0(?) and I got to BASIC by running BASICA.EXE.

If I had to guess, it booted into DOS if you had a hard disk and otherwise booted BASIC from a ROM?

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Re:Raspberry Pi Boot to BASIC by bellyfullofbac on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:20PM (#29826460)
Nah it didn't have a hard disk, and booting up without any floppies inserted resutled in an error message...
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