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From: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: 68000 size vs. 8 bit size
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Date: Tue, 18-Aug-87 11:48:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 18 11:48:51 1987
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>>	Meanwhile, MicroSlush is proud of the fact that the core of their
>>AmigaBASIC interpreter runs in "only 80K" of RAM.  Truly pathetic.
>
>Thats not too bad, until you realize that they did about 20K for (what I
>consider a better interpreter) on the model 1 from radio shack, and that
>didn't even make much use of the z80 abilities.

Actually, that was 12K rom.  That included both basic and the I/O
routines (programmed keyboard, programmed cassette, etc).  The Model 1
had 48K (with expansion) ram, 12K rom, and 4K of memory mapped I/O
(only about 3K was actually used, though).

Actually, the Model 1 ROM made fairly EXTENSIVE use of the z80
capabilities.  IX and IY were used frequently, and the most common
function calls were invoked via a 1 byte RST instruction.

Anyone remember the 4K Level 1 Basic for the model 1?