ST Basic - inspired by QDOS?

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Re: ST Basic - inspired by QDOS?

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I seriously ask myself what he is trying to achieve with his answers.


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Re: ST Basic - inspired by QDOS?

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XorA wrote:
NormanDunbar wrote:
Brane2 wrote:THis is why Linux has elf - "eXecutable and Linkable File" format.
Invented in the early 1990s. QL invented in the early 1980s.
I remember Linux pre ELF :-D
a.out format for the win! ;-)

The ELF format wasn't taken up by most UNIXs until the mid-90s. Linux just followed the crowd.

Until running executables with dynamic linking arrived there was no need for the extra resource overhead it used and the run-time linker systems required.

Anyway, where were we?

Oh yes, ST-BASIC... IMHO Metacomco's programers merely liked the window layout from the QL. There's definitely no RED or BLACK backgrounds though and the BASIC is very much a Microsoft BASIC derived dialect.

I guess that's the thread finished.


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Re: ST Basic - inspired by QDOS?

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stephen_usher wrote:a.out format for the win!
That's the one I was trying to remember, thanks.
stephen_usher wrote:I guess that's the thread finished.
It appears complete. But you never know.


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