Lenny Elekman and Richard Lary, Digital Equipment Corporation,
Long Island, New York
POLY BASIC is a compiler and operating stand-alone system
designed for the PDP-8 family. It has a total user program
storage of 32K characters in which the disk is utilized. Some
of the features of the compi ler are:
a. It has all BASIC system commands,
b. It has all BASIC operations,
c. It contains all built-in functions except TAN,
d. Its accuracy is 1 part in 223 rather than 1 part
in 235, because of word size difference,
e. Maximum program size is 6144 characters as in
regular (Dartmouth) BASIC,
f. Maximum usable statement number 4095
rather than 99999,
g. Maximum array space is 3600 characters, and
maximum number of statements is 330; however,
these can be traded off against one another
at the rate of 25 array elements per statement,
h. There are no matrix operations,
i. The argument "EDIT resequence" is implemented and
the command "EDIT" renumbers the user file from line
number 100 in steps of 10,
j. There is a set of error messages to signal compilation
errors and a set for execution errors.
| Minimum Hardware: | PDP-8 with ASR-33
Teletype and DF32 Disk
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| Catalog:
| November 1969
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