Revision as of 09:27, 17 November 2013 edit JIP (talk \| contribs) Administrators 70,162 edits I don't think anyone will confuse BASIC extensions with widget toolkits ← Previous edit		Revision as of 19:54, 17 May 2015 edit undo 86.2.216.5 (talk) →Technical concept: Terminate and stay resident has a pretty specific meaning, and this isn't it Next edit →
Line 3: __NOTOC__ ==Technical concept== Toolkits ran as ~~[[terminate and stay resident]]~~ extensions to the BASIC interpreter supplied with the machine. At the time, such interpreters almost always came programmed into the [[read-only memory\|ROM]] of the computer, making it impossible to modify or [[Patch (computing)\|patch]] the [[computer code\|code]]. It was also extremely rare for manufacturers to offer upgrades or bugfixes except as part of new models of machine. As the original language was held in immutable [[read-only memory\|ROM]], it generally was difficult for a toolkit to directly extend the language, except by adding new keywords to perform functions not implemented by the original interpreter.

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