* 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/>
