Timeline for Variances in Basic highest line numbers
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Jan 15, 2020 at 21:13 | answer | added | Jean-François Fabre | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 19:58 | answer | added | jonathanjo | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 17:37 | answer | added | Maury Markowitz | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 14:40 | answer | added | Chromatix | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 11:20 | answer | added | TripeHound | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 14, 2020 at 23:30 | answer | added | AndyB | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jan 14, 2020 at 22:53 | comment | added | Jean-François Fabre | oric basic accepts 63999 but not 64000 as a line number... | |
| Jan 14, 2020 at 20:47 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jan 14, 2020 at 18:49 | answer | added | George Phillips | timeline score: 21 | |
| Jan 14, 2020 at 14:21 | comment | added | AndyF | Oh I'm well aware of how the 'Speccy does this , much fun back in the day with hiding floating point values ;) | |
| Jan 14, 2020 at 13:37 | comment | added | Martin Maly | According the ZX Spectrum Manual, the line number is not stored as a string, see: worldofspectrum.org/ZXBasicManual/chap24diag3.gif | |
| Jan 14, 2020 at 13:21 | comment | added | AndyF | Will look into which versions employ strings for this , logic tells me early variants. | |
| Jan 14, 2020 at 13:00 | vote | accept | AndyF | ||
| Jan 14, 2020 at 12:59 | comment | added | AndyF | I was not aware of storing it as a string , useful to know ! Thank you. | |
| Jan 14, 2020 at 12:49 | answer | added | Martin Maly | timeline score: 25 | |
| Jan 14, 2020 at 12:43 | comment | added | UncleBod | Some basics saved the line number as an ASCII string, so that could explain 4 digit maximum. Using max 32767 could be using signed integer of some reason, or the top bit was used by the interpreter/editor for marking purposes | |
| Jan 14, 2020 at 12:36 | history | asked | AndyF | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
