Timeline for Why was it common to reference memory locations using negative numbers on some BASICs?
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| Feb 12, 2020 at 0:44 | comment | added | scruss | COMPUTE! kind of did with [MLX](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLX_(software%29) listings | |
| Feb 3, 2020 at 0:05 | comment | added | supercat | Many programs could have been easier to write, more compact, and faster-starting with the aid of a "stuff-hex" function that would accept an address and a string containing an even number of characters, interpret pairs of characters as hex bytes, and place them in memory. It seems curious that, if nothing else, magazine editors didn't standardize on a "stuff-hex" function that could be poked into memory using a read-data loop, allowing all of the other data a program needed to be stuffed from hex strings rather than read as individual digits. | |
| Feb 2, 2020 at 14:43 | history | answered | scruss | CC BY-SA 4.0 |