12 Dec
2005
12 Dec
'05
5:42 p.m.
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 20:15:48 +0000
"Dave Dunfield" <dave04a at dunfield.com> wrote:
64K is a HECK of a lot of memory if your code is all in assembly.
I've worked on projects where the limited program memory in the
micro, i.e. the 16K of program memory available on-chip, was a
godsend- it served as a brake on futher 'feature creep' requests
I think cubix was a good idea, but this 15 years
too late for
me as I
What a co-incidence ... CUBIX is 20+ years old, so it should
have been perfect :-)
realize in hindsight that 128k of
memory - split code and data is needed for any real work. This
the crummy 8088 has but not the 6809.
Funny, I've done LOTS of "real work" in <64k 8-bit CPUs. Even
now a lot of my command line utilities are compiled in 64k
"tiny" model (Referencing stuff known here, Anyone notice that
ImageDisk, my Simulators and the various other transfer
utilities that I've done are all .COM files) - I used to think
64k was lots of memory... and I still do!
from the folks in marketing. ("yes, we can
include new feature
'x' but it means doing away with the lookup table that
feature 'j'
you requested last month uses.")