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points by reaperducer 4 days ago | 0 comments

The whole of the MOS and BASIC on the BBC micro ran in 16+16K

You can get BASIC down much smaller than that. I'm pretty sure there were some that were 3K or less to run on KIM, 4004, and similar machines.

I have a memory of an 8008 or 8080 version that was 3K, leaving 1K of RAM for programs.

[–] jacquesm 4 days ago

Yes, but BBC Basic was on a completely different level language wise. It even had a built in assembler and allowed the creation of structured programs with named functions and procedures.