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C>I wonder what the story behind DLOAD was?  Why did they add it?  (Wow.  Back
C>then, Microsoft hadn't even written PC-DOS yet!!!  What had they done at
C>this point in the time line?)

     #1: There was a big promotion for selling CoCo 1/2s to schools.  There
was even a tape based network devised thru Extended Color Basic for the
purpose of having the teacher's cassette based CoCo download tests and text to
the students CoCos... up to 15 or 16 slaves.  I believe that Dload command was
used in this.
     #2: While developing the basic ROM, Tandy had specs for Dload for MS.
T%andy was thinking of having some way of distributing software remotely and
that Dload could be used for downloading such wares.  Perhaps Tandy thought
that by keeping a Uload command would keep distribution on their end!!! ;)
                                 Steve Secord

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