Recovering Cassette Tape Records

[Cameron Kaiser]

> I questioned the assumption that the interpreter would parse
> the integer value from source code each time.  Wouldn't most BASICs
> tokenize to a 16-bit integer in memory, once at loading?

I don't know about this BASIC, but most Microsoft-derived BASICs do not
(I know for sure that Applesoft and Commodore BASICs don't).

In fact, pre-assigning constants to variables in Commodore BASIC is a very
frequent method of speeding up BASIC execution.

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