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On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 10:21:46 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>
>Yes, and we didn't have Python then. When I had a computer with 640KB
>of memory, my options were (1) BASIC or (2) 8086 assembly language,
>using DEBUG.EXE and its mini-assembler. Later on (much much later), I

	Was MS-DOS really that bloated?

	My TRS-80 Model III/4 {upgraded circuit board, original power supply}
supported: interpreted BASIC, Pro-MC (Misosys K&R C compiler -- precursor
was LC -- an integer "tiny C") with assembler, Alcor Pascal, and from my
cassette-based original Mod-III -- Supersoft LISP.

	That was on 64kB (actually, LISP was on 32kB -- I didn't get 64kB until
adding the first floppy, and bank-swapped 128k with the M-4 upgrade).

	I'll confess to using a 2.5MB Amiga A-1000 -- by spending a few minutes
copying the Aztec C system from floppies into a RAM disk on the 2GB
extension box -- and then running compiles using the base 512kB RAM.
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