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by pgris2 656 days ago
Honestly, a port to a modern architecture, with more standard looking characters (like using # for comments instead of ~ and \n for newline instead of ! ) would be pretty interesting... It's amazing what that people used to be able to do with such limitations. 2k! I can barely make a CRUD app fit in 2G
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082349872349872 656 days ago
That 2k would've cost ~$130 in early 1975, roughly $750 in 2024 dollars.

We have the EEs to thank for making the price of bloat inconsequential.

https://jcmit.net/memoryprice.htm

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/about-us/monetary-policy/infl...

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Pompidou 655 days ago
Both the 1979 and 1983, C and Pascal versions, compile fine and work as expected using last versions of respectively TCC and Lazarus on windows 10.

http://mouse.davidgsimpson.com/mouse83/mouse83_c.txt http://mouse.davidgsimpson.com/mouse83/mouse83_pas.txt

http://mouse.davidgsimpson.com/mouse79/mouse79_c.txt http://mouse.davidgsimpson.com/mouse79/mouse79_pas.txt

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