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From: wcs@ho95b.UUCP (Bill Stewart)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: ANSI Basic
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Date: Tue, 12-Mar-85 18:08:50 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 12 18:08:50 1985
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From Barry Margolin:
>As to language size, Touch Technologies (San Diego) wrote a strictly
> >interpreted implementation for the VAX that fits in 80k
> 
> Wow, remember the good old days when a fairly complete BASIC fit in the
> 4K (or maybe it was 16K) ROM of a TRS-80 model I?  .........

A friend of mine had a 4K BASIC punchcard deck that ran on the DG Novas
that ran our cardreaders at Cornell back in the mid-70's - if the IBM 370 was
down, he could still work, sort of.