OT - Memory usage in days of yore

[BCS]

Janice Caron wrote:
> On 10/04/2008, Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> I used to work with a device that had
>> 256 bytes of RAM and 8K of code space.  When working on that device, I
>> learned how important it was to split common functionality into functions.
> 
> 
> Pah! My ZX80 had *one K* of RAM. And three quarters of that was used
> for the display!
> (and you could still play Space Invaders on it).
> 
> Young people today! :-)

I've got you beat: ~127-256 bytes, code and data, end of story.

and that's a modern computer

http://www.rev-ed.co.uk/docs/picaxe_manual1.pdf
pg 38 under program memory for type M chips.

also see pg 40