On 13/01/2025 22:19, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
On 1/13/2025 3:57 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
On 2025-01-13 12:18 p.m., Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote:
Funny when the 8 and 16 bit micros hit the market, Algol seemed to
vanish off the face of the earth. Was 64KB too small a address space?
More like not enough actual memory. You can fit an acceptable basic into
a 4K ROM so it will work without a disk drive.
Its an interpreter so can do checks as you type it in.
Its far easier to learn than Algol.
ALGOL ran just fine on the PDP-11.
Thats not an 8-bit micro and needed a decent disk to run Algol
bill
Dave
Dave
