On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Ken Barber <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Dec 16, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Andrew Farnsworth wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:01 AM, ./aal <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I still have my ZX81 that I built in 1981, although it runs neither >> Linux, OSX, or the other "stuff" >> I do still have a soft spot for Zilog tho ;^) >> > > Modernistic Memory Hog!!! I ran a ZX80 (1k RAM vs 4k RAM)... Either way, I > have yet to see any "modern" OS that could even hope of running in that > small a memory footprint. > > > Uh... you ARE aware that the ZX81 didn't have an OS, aren't you? Just > BASIC in a ROM, nothing more. > Yep, not an OS in modern terminology, but it did supply loading and saving of data via the tape in/out ports to a standard tape recorder. It was a severely hacked system as well. For example, to save memory, they reduced many of the commands to a single character, such as the print command was reduced to ? and even if you used print or any other command, it was a single key press to enter the command which was really a single byte value mapped to the command. Andy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
