On Dec 19, 2007 11:19 PM, Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 20 years ago, I had a compiler, interpreter, operating system, and > maybe an assembler, all in 8 Kb. 12 Kb on 32 bit processors. It ran in > as little as 16 Kb, but I preferred 24 Kb. I could port it to a new > processor in a few weeks, and once I had the processor down I could > put it on a new computer in as little as an hour. The source code fit > on a DSDD floppy, along with editors, assemblers, the cross compiler > (it was self hosting), decompilers, single steppers, disassemblers and > other tools. Oh, and a few games. And an IDE.
And we were _grateful_ :-p -- Alex Esplin /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
