* Peter da Silva <[email protected]> [2007-05-18 19:05]:
> Then when I started working at Hydril and found I was sharing a
> machine with 4K of RAM and 12K of ROM with two other people...
> at least Polyforth on the 1802 was direct-threaded and had a
> fixed NFA and could run headerless. That saved a good 5-10
> bytes per defined word, especially since you could keep
> register 12 pointing at the inner interpreter so instead of
> having to start them with "JSR DOCOL" (3 bytes) you could start
> them with "SEP C" (1 byte).

Where's the part where you carry punchcard barefoot through the
snow uphill both ways?

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

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