From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,PLING_QUERY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!5WHqCw2XxjHb2npjM9GYbw.user.gioia.aioe.org.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Adapting an Ada compiler to generate 8051 code (Again?! ;-) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 14:01:34 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <41bc7a62-9c70-466d-b316-5fc74a3ee845n@googlegroups.com> <8e45935f-7643-4998-a270-fc7157c89934n@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 5WHqCw2XxjHb2npjM9GYbw.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.9.0 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:61685 List-Id: On 2021-03-30 13:27, mockturtle wrote: > Well, old ZX Spectrum with its 48K RAM extension (I and my brother said when we extended the RAM: "What are we going to do with all this memory?" :-D ) used just 64K and you could do nice stuff. The first release of Turbo Pascal (editor and compiler integrated) was a .COM, limited by design to 64K. I remember the glorious time when 1K weighted 1kg (:-)) When I started, I and my pal worked together on a 256K machine in two time sharing terminal sessions. That was RSX-11M. These days almost every executable begins at 5-10M. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de