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From: Rich Alderson
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The joy of FORTH (not)
Date: 25 Oct 2024 17:16:11 -0400
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro writes:
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:13:05 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro 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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