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On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 01:32:51 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:13:05 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
> 
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 08:04:37 -0700, John Ames wrote:
>>> 
>>>> ... but the one has 512 KB Flash/144 KB RAM, and the other only 32
>>>> KB/16 KB.
>>> 
>>> 512kiB seems to be the recommendation for MicroPython. For the 32kiB
>>> one, I would want to use a cross-compiler for some more
>>> resource-efficient language, like C.
>>> 
>> Ridiculous! 32K should be more than enough to run a decent compiler
>> natively.
> 
> It never was. Even back in Apple II days, Apple didn’t recommend using
> something like a Pascal compiler on their 6502-based platform.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDS_C

My CP/M boxes had 64k but that clains BDS would run in 30k. TurboPascal 
was lightning fast comparatively and ran in 64k.