Re: RISC OS 3.10

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From: Simon B Proven IE91
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 12:30

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In article <1992Sep8.012242.17735@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA) writes:
>Gavin.Flower@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Gavin Flower) writes:
>
>>Any changes to the version of BASIC that comes with Risc-OS 3.1 over
>>Risc-OS 2.0?  I don't recall any recent mention of this, though I'm
>>sure that there are changes, if my memory serves me correctly.
>
>There are also some new instructions I think...

Also there is a version in !System (BASIC64) which provides IEEE double
precision floats in BASIC.  It may break some programs which assume that
a float takes 5 bytes of store, but it does allow better precision in
programs that don't break or know about it.

mad@bike

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