640kb ought to be enough for anybody.

El lun, 18 ago 2025, 21:21, Leonard D Woren <[email protected]>
escribió:

> Just catching up from being away for weeks, there's one thing that
> hasn't been mentioned in this long thread about RMODE 64:
>
> Why is this even needed?
>
> A load module library filling a 3390-2 will just about fit below the
> bar.  It greatly simplifies things to run RMODE 31 AMODE 64, with most
> of the data above the bar.  Then none of this RMODE 64 discussion is
> relevant.
>
> Oh, I suppose if your program is written in one of those bloatware
> languages that are used for apps on cellphones, where every rinkydink
> trivial app is 30 MB, and big apps can be 500 MB, then you might
> possibly need RMODE 64.  There is no possible way that anything
> written purely in z assembler would ever need RMODE 64.  If your data
> doesn't fit below the bar, move the data, not the program.
>
> Part of the product that I work on is in Metal/C, which apparently
> generates all code as RMODE 64 AMODE 64.
>
>
> /Leonard
>
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