Trying to understand HAL

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Subject: Trying to understand HAL
From: e e <bike17@JUNO.COM>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 00:21:07 -0400
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Reply-To: e e <bike17@JUNO.COM>

I am trying to understand the point of HAL.  What I have gathered so far
is that HAL allows you to take a program written in BASIC, and transfer
it to ASM.  Ok, I understand that ASM gives you added features that BASIC
doesn't have, such as gray-scale on the screen, but why in the world
would you want to transfer a BASIC program to ASM?  It the same source
code, right?  How is it going to be any better in ASM than in BASIC?



Eric E. Klos   Mt. Clemens MI  R/C's, HO slots, mountain bikes,
computers, beginning Go-Kart project

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