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From: Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTH (not)
Date: 25 Oct 2024 17:16:11 -0400
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

> On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:13:05 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:

>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

>>> On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 08:04:37 -0700, John Ames wrote:

>>>> ... but the one has 512 KB Flash/144 KB RAM, and the other only 32
>>>> KB/16 KB.

>>> 512kiB seems to be the recommendation for MicroPython. For the 32kiB
>>> one, I would want to use a cross-compiler for some more
>>> resource-efficient language, like C.

>> Ridiculous! 32K should be more than enough to run a decent compiler
>> natively.

> It never was. Even back in Apple II days, Apple didn't recommend using 
> something like a Pascal compiler on their 6502-based platform.

My first computer was a 12K (BCD charactersw) IBM 1401 running FORTRAN IV.
Better compiler writers in those days...

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