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Sb: #5121-#Is Basic out of date?
Fm: Mark Wuest 74030,332
To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004

Paul,
 We generally *do* have cio loaded (I think the MW shell uses it!). We
generally do *not* link with -i (to use cio) except for occasional use
utilities. For more than one copy of a program, it uses more memory than having
the cio stuff linked in because it grabs so much memory itself. The key is, I
am not required to have either cio or math to write programs in "C". I am
required to have runb to even use someone else's programs in Basic. If *I* do
not have Basic, then I do not have runb, and I cannot run programs written in
MW Basic. cio and math come with all versions of os9 that I know of.
 In general, cio saves about (I didn't check this, just memory) 12k of text
space and uses about 8k more data space. With one copy of a program running, it
saves about 4k of memory. With two copies, it costs 4k, then 8k per copy. I've
never checked math.
 I guess the point is that programs written in "C" are much easier to run

since you do not need to buy "C" to run programs written in it.
 Mark

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