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JamesC
on 2005-03-31
16:53:48
 Re: A couple of Plus/4 questions

Maybe you don't understand (or know) the history of the TED series.

Commodore's intent was to do something different with the TED line. The Plus/4 was intended to be a business machine, the C16 a learning machine. Neither was meant to be a gaming machine like the C64.

Hence, Commodore engineering thought that a reset button was more logical to the intended users. The ability to hold down the Run/Stop key to enter the MONITOR is actually an improvement over the PET/CBM series that required a SYS to a BRK instruction, and sometimes reuined BASIC pointers when exiting.

In my opinion, the TED series were the first Commodore machines actually designed correctly. The RESTORE key had been a problem for Commodore, as people didn't understand that it had to be hit quickly and firmly, not softly like the spacebar..... and by calling it RESET it obviously returns the system to default settings.

The Commodore 128, mostly designed by the same people who worked on the TED series, kept the reset button because they saw its' value. The 128 only has a RESTORE key for 64 compatibility.



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