[Coco] CB, ECB, DECB, & SECB

[Salvador Garcia]

The research that I did led me to conclude that the "Super" designation was to differentiate between an ECB ROM with and without Microware code. Salvador

      From: Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu>
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 Subject: Re: [Coco] CB, ECB, DECB, & SECB
   
...which brings up the question of whether the term Super Extended Color
Basic is in fact the official Tandy designation or not.  I first saw the
term in the title of Spectral Associates' Super Extended Basic Unravelled.
I have not seen it in anything from Tandy, and the term does not appear in
the CoCo 3 startup screen.  Then again, Spectral Associates have worked
with Tandy on various things, and I heard from somewhere long ago that they
were given one of the CoCo 3 prototypes for development purposes, so I
suspect that the term was at least unofficially used within Tandy.  I don't
see the name mentioned in Bill and Boisy's CoCo history book.

Art

On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Camillus Blockx <camillus.b.58 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Only Super I know is Super Extended Color Basic (Cc3)
>
>
> On Jun 10, 2017 12:42 AM, "Wayne Campbell" <asa.rand at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If I have it correctly:
> >
> > CB = Color Basic by Microsoft
> > ECB = Extended Color Basic by Microsoft) OS-9 had to be launched by
> running
> > a file on the OS-9 boot floppy
> > SCB = Super Ciolor Basic by Microsoft and Microware (CoCo 3 only, and has
> > DOS command for launching OS-9)
> > DECB = Disk Extended Color Basic by Microsoft (two versions, 1.1 and 1.2)
> >
> > I think that is all of them.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 10:21 PM, Salvador Garcia via Coco <
> > coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I think I found some information. SECB is Super Extended Color BASIC
> and
> > > was released with the CoCo 3, and included software licensed by
> > Microware.
> > > The "equivalent" BASIC on previous models did not have y Microware
> code.
> > > Is the ROM BASIC list complete as presented in the subject line?
> > > Salvador
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >      From: Salvador Garcia via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > >  To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > > Cc: Salvador Garcia <salvadorgarciav at yahoo.com>
> > >  Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2017 12:14 AM
> > >  Subject: [Coco] CB, ECB, DECB, & SECB
> > >
> > >  These are:
> > > Color BASICExtended Color BASICDisk Extended Color BASIC
> > > Not sure what SECB is... Super, Supreme, Superior... ?
> > > If I understand correctly, these are all the ROMs that were released by
> > > Tandy/Radio Shack in the Color Computer.Is that correct?
> > >
> > > Thanks! Salvador
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