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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The integral type 'byte' (was Re: Suggested method for returning
 a string from a C program?)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 10:05:04 -0700
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On 3/28/2025 2:13 AM, David Brown wrote:
> On 28/03/2025 02:05, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>> On 27.03.2025 12:14, bart wrote:
>>> On 27/03/2025 02:24, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> Also, by a 'few KB' I meant single figures, like 2-8KB for the code,
>>> plus RAM. That Atari seems to have a bit more available.
>>
>> Yes, I was comparing it with the "standard" IBM PC (which had 640 kB)
>> and the Atari ST had first (I think) 500 kB (mine, a later version,
>> had 1 MB).
> 
> So you are talking about a completely different world.  You are 
> criticising machines of the class of ZX Spectrum, with 8-bit processors 
> and 4KB - 32KB rom and ram, for using BASIC - and justifying it by 
> telling us what you used on a a system more than an order of magnitude 
> bigger?
[...]

FWIW, BASIC was my first programming language. Then PEEK and POKE got me 
into assembly language. ;^)