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Floppy disks were very expensive. And needed an additional expansion board which was also expensive. Cassettes : everybody had one.
> basic does not offer anything like that
It had LOAD and SAVE as far as i remember.
TBH i think the speed of loading programs (from floppy) made a bigger difference than a "command interpreter".
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Floppy disks were very expensive. And needed an additional expansion board which was also expensive. Cassettes : everybody had one.
> basic does not offer anything like that
It had LOAD and SAVE as far as i remember.
TBH i think the speed of loading programs (from floppy) made a bigger difference than a "command interpreter".