[antlr-interest] Java code generator memory optimization

[Gerald B. Rosenberg]

At 02:38 PM 9/29/2005, you wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > > God I'm young... my first was a 640k, 16 something MHz
> > > on which I learnt BASIC and MSDOS 3.3 & 5.0 more than
> > > a decade back :)
> >
> > That's pretty good.  Some folks "became conscious" on 128M machines.
>;)
> >
> > BTW, the 1.077mhz machine was the 6502 in the apple II. :)
> >
>
>Bloody luxury! I had t'Sinclair Cambridge wi' t'Hex Pad and an 8 digit
>LED display, to type in t'Z80 machine code directly mate. That's what I
>had to start with! And I had to build me own power supply and lick
>t'gravel on Clive Sinclair's driveway to get ROM updates. Bloody Apple
>II's - bloody luxury. And you try telling that t'ut kids o' today!

Bull.  Yours was the luxury!  I wire-wrapped my first 8080 system with just 
4Kbytes of 750ns memory.  The 8224 crystal was not stable above 700KHz.  I 
had to build an 8207 UVEProm programmer (and power supplies) and write my 
own boot monitor just to get the thing to run!

The Cambridge was a Z80A-based system that came with a Basic 
interpreter.  Anyone who worked with the real (original) Z80 knows that it 
came with an errata sheet that was as thick as the programmer's manual.  I 
think I still have it.  Now that was a programming challenge.

Try and top that you old softy!!

;-)
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