Posted By
JamesC
on 2019-04-22
21:36:26
|  Re: PRINT statement fills the RAM
On the 264 machines, strings are ALWAYS copied into RAM.
Test:
10 PRINT "ABC123"
RUN (ABC123 prints on the screen)
MONITOR
> 07F8 80 (this tells the Monitor to look at RAM under ROM)
H 1000 FCFF 41 42 43 31 32 33 (search BASIC RAM for the hex values of ABC123)
They will be found at 1008 and FCF8; no prior string assignment is necessary. The same occurs if you use the CHAR command to output a string to the screen.
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