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From: hbaker@netcom.com (Henry Baker)
Subject: Re: Myths and the Encyclopaedia Britannica
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References: <19951018T031310Z@naggum.no> <DGnCIF.DLw@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <814044201snz@wildcard.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 18:07:40 GMT
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In article <814044201snz@wildcard.demon.co.uk>,
cyber_surfer@wildcard.demon.co.uk wrote:

> In article <DGnCIF.DLw@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
>            jeff@cogsci.ed.ac.uk "Jeff Dalton" writes:
> 
> > Moreover, Lisp can be very small.
> 
> Yep. I remember reading about one that ran in 16K of RAM. That machine
> included a Microsoft Basic interpreter in the 12K ROM, so I'd say that
> the Lisp in question was possibly even smaller, and yet it was powerful
> enough to do some symbolic math. The first (and for all I know only)
> C compiler for that machine required a further 32K of RAM to be added.

Early Autolisp, as used in AutoCAD, was a version of xlisp that runs in very
little space -- 32K bytes, I think.  The newer versions have much larger
pointers, which now allow megabytes of list structure.

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