[cctalk] Re: Intel 8086 - 46 yrs. ago

ben wrote: I've recently posted much of the source code I've written over the years in a "Retirement project" section of my site. Various related documents and executables can be had from the packages in my main downloads, and at "Daves Old Computers". If you are interested in the C-FLEA CPU - the best place to see/try it is DVM (Dunfield Virtual Machine) this is a little VM I put together - available at the above locations. Here is a bit on information I put together about my compiler (Micro-C) with C-FLEA/DVM: (Sorry if spaces get munged - can't seem to post a simple "spaced" text document on must sites these days) My compiler is known for making small executables. One of the most common comments I received about it was "how can it make such small programs?". Here are the DVM application file sizes at the time of this writing: 3,281 CC.DVM - Compile command 6,320 MCP.DVM - Micro-C preprocessor 17,440 MCCDVM.DVM - Micro-C compiler 4,064 MCODVM.DVM - Micro-C optimizer 1,210 MCCILIB.DVM - Replaces calls to internal library 4,675 SLINK.DVM - Source linker 8,335 ASMDVM.DVM - DVM assembler 1,488 MCCVT.DVM - Convert .HEX from ASM into .DVM 8,656 EDT.DVM - My EDT editor 5,415 VLT.DVM - My large text file viewer 6,560 BASIC.DVM - My "BASIC" sample program Subtract 128 bytes from each of the above sizes because the free demo .DVMs have an integrated protection message. And here are the same program compiled with my PC/DOS compiler: 4,651 CC.COM 13,900 MCP.EXE \ 24,258 MCCDVM.EXE > As Micro-C was designed to be easily 12,792 MCODVM.COM > portable, these tools make very little 3,479 MCCILIB.COM > use of library functions. 12,274 SLINK.EXE / 17,650 ASMDVM.EXE 4,361 MCCVT.COM 17,154 EDT.EXE 7,444 VLT.COM 12,115 BASIC.EXE Dave Dunfield - https://dunfield.themindfactory.com