16 Mar
1999
16 Mar
'99
3:29 p.m.
On 16 Mar 1999, Eric Smith wrote:
Volume 2 of the CPMUG lists a Tinybasic at 3k. The docs run 12k.
- don
I did a
search of the net for Tiny Basic and only found
references to the history of Tiny Basic and some site
that had something called Tiny Basic that was only 7K!
I guess they missed the point, it ain't tiny unless it
is smaller than 2K. Lets get real, 7K is only 1K smaller
than 8K which is a standard sized basic.
Heck, "standard sized BASIC" came in 4K, 8K, and 12K variants.
IIRC, those were the memory sizes needed to run them and still
have at least a small amount of memory left over for your
program. But yes, if 7K is considered "Tiny BASIC", I
should write a
6K "Miniscule BASIC"!
I guess it's just a symptom of the general software inflation that has
occurred. Everything has become bloated and inefficient.
That "Tiny BASIC" isn't written in C++, by any chance? :-)