Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!godot!mit-eddie!barmar From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: net.lang Subject: Re: ANSI Basic Message-ID: <3783@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 00:32:47 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.3783 Posted: Mon Mar 11 00:32:47 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Mar-85 21:15:44 EST References: <1385@orca.UUCP> Reply-To: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 13 In article <1385@orca.UUCP> andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) writes: >As to language size, Touch Technologies (San Diego) wrote a strictly >interpreted implementation for the VAX that fits in 80k Wow, remember the good old days when a fairly complete BASIC fit in the 4K (or maybe it was 16K) ROM of a TRS-80 model I? Or how about the BASIC I learned to program on, which ran in the 4K address space on a PDP-8 (it used overlays and demand-paged the P-code generated by the cmopiler, but it was still fairly tiny). -- Barry Margolin ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar