Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: John Levine
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 10:43

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In article <r1c6hd9alvtcdvjo0...@4ax.com>,
Gene Wirchenko  <ge...@telus.net> wrote:
>     To get specific, a tiny BASIC (interpreted) could be implemented
>in 2K.  A compiler needs a lot more.

I don't think the Dartmouth compiler was much bigger than that since mainframe memory
in the 1960s was very expensive, but they did have fast disks.

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