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It's quite neat, but I think that a major downside with this approach would be the extra memory consumption from including BASIC in the DOS. The demo uses 34kB
by tpmx 5y ago
It's quite neat, but I think that a major downside with this approach would be the extra memory consumption from including BASIC in the DOS. The demo uses 34kB (out of e.g. 64kB) for the OS.
Not sure how that compares with PC-DOS 1.0, but it seems high.
- shadowofneptune 5y agoI have a virtual machine open at the moment, so I loaded PC-DOS 1.1. It uses roughly 12.4k.
- bonzini 5y agoBASICA.COM was another 16k roughly, not counting the parts of the interpreter that were in ROM.
- facorreia 5y ago> All preview binaries shown here are DEBUG versions, which means that all run-time assertions are enabled, so file sizes and memory usage are larger than normal, and overall performance is slightly lower.