SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Thu Aug 23 00:55:10 2001

I just loaded up Visual C++ v6.-something as part of the latest development tool
set for Windows, and a colleague who has already test-driven it, indicates that
the first exercise, a "Hello World" thing, includes two runtime libraries, one
that's 143KB in size and one that's !36KB in size. It may be possible to make
things smaller, but this exercise apparently doesn't.

regards,

Richard Erlacher

----- Original Message -----
From: "Iggy Drougge" <optimus_at_canit.se>
To: "Richard Erlacher" <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing


> 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.
>
> --
> En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
>
>
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