Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Alan Bowler
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 18:36

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On 2018-06-05 6:43 AM, John Levine wrote:
> 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.
> 

Well today the BASIC compiler on GCOS8
(essentially the Dartmouth compiler for the GE-635)
needs 13479 36-bit words (53916 9-bit bytes) to load.

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From: Alan Bowler <atbo...@thinkage.ca>
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Subject: Re: The birth of BASIC
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