Re: GEOS managed to offer nearly all the functionality of the originalMac in a 1 MHz computer with 64 Kilobytes of RAM.

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Subject	Re: GEOS managed to offer nearly all the functionality of the originalMac in a 1 MHz computer with 64 Kilobytes of RAM.
Date	2016-10-22 19:08 +1000
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clozaga@gmail.com wrote:
> Forth generates very compact threaded code it could be ideal for a 64k machine in that
> regard. However it may not be as performing as assembler, which much of GEOS depended
> on.

Speed aside, simple functions can be more compact in assembler than
threaded Forth.  A good number of bytes can be shaved from a Forth
kernel applying such a strategy.  In practice the C64 had much less
memory available to programs than 64K.  At the end of the day it was
just a games machine (as was the Amiga).

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GEOS managed to offer nearly all the functionality of the original Mac in a 1 MHz computer with 64 Kilobytes of RAM. polymorph self <jackvanc3@gmail.com> - 2016-10-20 14:55 -0700
  Re: GEOS managed to offer nearly all the functionality of the original Mac in a 1 MHz computer with 64 Kilobytes of RAM. polymorph self <jackvanc3@gmail.com> - 2016-10-20 15:10 -0700
    Re: GEOS managed to offer nearly all the functionality of the original Mac in a 1 MHz computer with 64 Kilobytes of RAM. polymorph self <jackvanc3@gmail.com> - 2016-10-20 15:10 -0700
  GEOS managed to offer nearly all the functionality of the original Mac in a 1 MHz computer with 64 Kilobytes of RAM. clozaga@gmail.com - 2016-10-20 20:58 -0700
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      Re: GEOS managed to offer nearly all the functionality of the original Mac in a 1 MHz computer with 64 Kilobytes of RAM. hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-10-22 21:32 -0700
    Re: GEOS managed to offer nearly all the functionality of the originalMac in a 1 MHz computer with 64 Kilobytes of RAM. "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2016-10-22 19:08 +1000

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