Re: The integral type 'byte' (was Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?)

On 28/03/2025 02:05, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

On 27.03.2025 12:14, bart wrote:

On 27/03/2025 02:24, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

 

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Also, by a 'few KB' I meant single figures, like 2-8KB for the code,
plus RAM. That Atari seems to have a bit more available.

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Yes, I was comparing it with the "standard" IBM PC (which had 640 kB)
and the Atari ST had first (I think) 500 kB (mine, a later version,
had 1 MB).

 So you are talking about a completely different world.  You are criticising machines of the class of ZX Spectrum, with 8-bit processors and 4KB - 32KB rom and ram, for using BASIC - and justifying it by telling us what you used on a a system more than an order of magnitude bigger?