Re: The joy of FORTH (not)

On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 01:32:51 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:13:05 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
 

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

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On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 08:04:37 -0700, John Ames wrote:
 

... but the one has 512 KB Flash/144 KB RAM, and the other only 32
KB/16 KB.

 
512kiB seems to be the recommendation for MicroPython. For the 32kiB
one, I would want to use a cross-compiler for some more
resource-efficient language, like C.
 

Ridiculous! 32K should be more than enough to run a decent compiler
natively.

 
It never was. Even back in Apple II days, Apple didn’t recommend using
something like a Pascal compiler on their 6502-based platform.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDS_C

My CP/M boxes had 64k but that clains BDS would run in 30k. TurboPascal
was lightning fast comparatively and ran in 64k.