Your more minimal VM is larger than a minimal SUBLEQ VM! :) I think that is a fair characterization of most SUBLEQ implementations however that did annoy me sl

Your more minimal VM is larger than a minimal SUBLEQ VM! :) I think that is a fair characterization of most SUBLEQ implementations however that did annoy me slightly. You can make ones that use proper memory mapped I/O so they end up being truly single instruction, but they end up being larger.