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On 10/09/2024 12:55, David Brown wrote:
> On 10/09/2024 12:52, Bart wrote:

>> I've archived your post for if/when I get back to that project. (If I 
>> ever use Forth, it'll be on my own terms. I just tried it to see if 
>> it's still breathing:
>>
>>   c:\qapps>qq forth
>>   Bart-Forth
>>   Type bye to stop
>>   > 2 2 + .
>>   4
>>   > bye
>>
> 
> But it handle :
> 
> : 2 1 ;
> 2 2 + .
> 
> and get the answer 2 ?  :-)

Apparently:

   c:\qapps>qq forth
   Bart-Forth
   Type bye to stop
   > : 2 1 ;

   > 2 2 + .
   2
   >


> 
>> So it looks like I already thought of it as my version.)
>>
>>>>> To give more background, bare ZX81 had 1kB RAM (including video RAM).
>>>>
>>>> You must mean /excluding/ surely? Otherwise there wouldn't be much left
>>>> from 1KB!
>>>
>>> There is not much left.  But there is a trick: boundary between
>>> video memory and rest is movable, as you fill other part available
>>> screen area shrinks.  It does not take long time to have machine
>>> completely filled out with no free space left (and IIRC some
>>> small screen area for out of memory message)
>>
>> So that meagre 1KB had to be shared?
>>
> 
> Yes.  24 lines of 32 characters took 768 bytes, and the OS and BASIC 
> took another 125 bytes.  There was not a lot of space for user code and 
> data!

An OS /and/ BASIC takes 125 bytes? You can't really complain about bloat 
here! Windows is probably 20GB and doesn't have Basic.