AVR-Chat

On Jan 29, 2012, at 4:01 PM, Chuck Hackett wrote:


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> I my early professional career (mid 70's) I can remember working for days to get one more byte of code space in an intelligent (?) terminal that had 4k of memory, 2k of which was dedicated to the display. We even did unthinkable things like self-modifying code to save space (hangs head in shame ...) ...
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A long time ago when I was in high school we had these HP programmable calculators (big suckers, the size of a desktop computer).  They had mag card readers (for program storage) and a plotter.  I wrote a simple warship game for it.  It used all available memory (the data registers alternatively held program instructions.  Getting it to all fit took quite a bit of shoehorning.  I haven't thought of that program in a long time.

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