SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_conman.org>
Date: Wed Aug 22 20:37:45 2001

It was thus said that the Great Iggy Drougge once stated:
>
> Richard Erlacher skrev:
>
> >Even today's compilers demand several hundred Kbytes for a simple
> >"hello-world" program on one of today's machines, while it took well fewer
> >than 256 bytes of executable code to print a short text string on a Z-80 or
> >6502.
>
> Tell me you're just making that up. Prove it.

  I just compiled the C hello world program under Linux 2.2.12 with
egcs-2.91.66 and got the following:

-rwxrwxr-x 1 spc spc 932131 Aug 22 21:32 hello

  Okay, granted, I compiled it statically (if I compiled normally, it would
be 11,811 bytes in size 8-) but still, nearly a megabyte there!

  -spc (Again, it depends upon how well the programmer uses the tools
        provided ... )
Received on Wed Aug 22 2001 - 20:37:45 BST