24 Nov
2002
24 Nov
'02
11:04 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great ben franchuk once stated:
Cameron Kaiser wrote:
I did not say General purpose computing can't be done,
just that it is a very small amount of memory for most
user programs. It is really hard work to have a useful
programs written on the small 8 bit machines, and fit
in 32k or 48k of memory incuding the OS.
Useful in what context? I wrote nearly every paper for high school and
college, plus a humor column [1] on an 8-bit computer [2], and I had a 2nd
cousin (Mom's cousin) that wrote a few books on an 8-bit computer [3].
Okay, you might not be able to effectively run more than one application at
a time, but that might not be such a *bad* thing, if you want to get work
done 8-)
In
hindsight we now know that 16 bits is too small a
addressing range for a general purpose byte/word cpu's
I can't believe someone actually said this on *this* list. I think I'll go
throw out all my 6502-based systems since they're so pointless for general
purpose computing. PS use 6809's rather than 6502's. :)
No argument there.
-spc (First assembly language was 6809 ... )
[1] http://www.conman.org/people/spc/writings/murphy/
[2] Color Computer 2 with 64K RAM.
[3] Northstar, probably running CP/M. I remember using it to play
games writtin in BASIC on it.