On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 14:27:40 +0000, Bill Fairchild wrote:

>The BPS "supervisor" took 2K, which left 6K for the "application" program.  I 
>never ran this way on an 8K model 30, but you were supposedly able to 
>configure a model 30 with only 8K.  The one I used had 16K.  This left me with 
>a whopping 14K for my application, which Dave Freeman once described to me as 
>"oceans of core", so why was I having so much trouble getting all my logic in 
>14K, he wanted to know.  :-)
>
Gulp.  BLKSIZE=???  Or, perhaps, BLKSIZE=??  Or was it all UR?

>And I used BAL, the Basic Assembler Language, which had many restrictions that 
>the TOS and DOS assemblers did not.  E.g., statement labels were limited to 6 
>characters.
>
If it's enough for FORTRAN it should be enough for you!

-- gil

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