From: David Ross (ross_at_math.hawaii.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 05 1999 - 15:23:09 EDT
David G:
> Why, when I was growing up, I used to run a system with only 32KB (not MB)
> of memory and could run any number of applications (one at a time) in that
> amount of RAM, including the DOS!
Youngster! Try wordprocessor, database program, and a couple of games,
all running simultaneously and comfortably in 8kb (coded in Forth, of course).
The word processor alone ran comfortably in 1k (plus the os/Forth kernel, another 1 k).
The funny thing is that Gates first got into the game by squeezing a decent Basic into
small memories - maybe W9x would have been much better had he done all the coding:-)
- David R.
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