Applesoft II fit in 10 kilobytes of rom and had to be able to run in as little as 4 kilobytes of ram. The one thing that Microsoft was an expert at (in that era

Applesoft II fit in 10 kilobytes of rom and had to be able to run in as little as 4 kilobytes of ram. The one thing that Microsoft was an expert at (in that era) was sacrificing features to fit. There was no special version for machines with more ram or with a floppy disk.