Ken Barber wrote:
> 
> On Dec 16, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:01 AM, ./aal <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[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.
> 

Well, since it did handle talking to the hardware, it was effectively a 
(very primitive) operating system.

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