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Yeah, not clear what Woz really expected it to be used for. Apparently the only thing he used it for himself was a later Apple BASIC renumber utility! Memory a
by HarHarVeryFunny 3y ago
Yeah, not clear what Woz really expected it to be used for. Apparently the only thing he used it for himself was a later Apple BASIC renumber utility!
Memory and ROM space was so valuable back then, that I wonder if in retrospect he thought that was 300 bytes (size of SWEET16 interpreter) of ROM space wisely used ?!
- kragen 3y agoyes, because it saved more rom space than that
- HarHarVeryFunny 3y agoWell, it really didn't save any ROM space since nothing in the ROM used it! Woz has since said that he thinks that the Apple BASIC interpreter (in ROM) could have been shrunk by 1KB (5KB->4KB) without any loss of performance by selective use of SWEET 16, but that never actually happened. https://www.apple2history.org/museum-a-l/articles/byte8501/ https://www.apple2history.org/museum-a-l/articles/byte8501/
- kragen 3y agooh, thank you for the correction!