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Re: [LP-RC] Euphoria devotee?

• Posted by gertie at visionsix.com Jun 19, 2003
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On 19 Jun 2003, at 16:27, C. K. Lester wrote:

> 
> 
> > Lucius's post below reminds me of the time when a 6502 8bit cpu did
> > multiple windows with wordwrap and mouse, both descrete and timeslice
> > multiprocessing, and ran basic language,,, all with under 64K of ram. And
> > the
> > restricted goto was wonderful, i wrote it: i could goto :labels or the
> > contents of variables. Lack of sequences wasn't a problem, since i indexed
> > each var anyhow. If it weren't for the lack of a upgrade to the cpu, with
> the
> > memory and harddrives of today's puters, i'd still be using that codebase.
> > The
> > whole OS would fit several times over into the cpu cache of a modern cpu. So
> > why isn't anyone else using the olde OSs?
> 
> Why don't ya get an Amiga?

I did have an Amiga. It emulated the 6502 in software, complete with slow 
speed and memory restricted to 64K.

Kat