MCS-51 Tiny BASIC ( was Re: INS8073 )

But definitely not any relation to the interpreter found in the 8052AH-BASIC chip, though, right? Do you have any URLs handy? -Dave On Aug 11, 2008, at 6:09 PM, Scanning wrote: > I've found numerous references to a MCS-51 Tiny BASIC for the 8051. > Apparently it is 3 Kbytes so I would definitely put it in the Tom > Pittman > category for Tiny BASICs. > > Best regards, Steven > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com> > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org> > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 12:41 PM > Subject: Re: INS8073 (was Re: HERO1 For sale...) > > >> Eric Smith wrote: >>> It's in 2.5KB of ROM, so it's definitely a tinier BASIC than in the >>> competing Intel 8051AH-BASIC and Zilog Z8671, both of which had >>> 4KB of > ROM. >> >> Was there in fact an 8051AH-BASIC? I've worked extensively with >> 8052AH-BASIC, and have never heard of an 8051 version. The 8052 >> has 8KB >> of ROM, compared to the 8051's 4KB. The BASIC interpreter >> filled...and >> I mean FILLED...that 8KB. It's extraordinarily dense code. >> >> The Z8671's BASIC, on the other hand, fits in the first 2KB of >> ROM on >> that chip. >> >> -Dave