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10 PRINT Memorial in New Hampshire marks the birthplace of BASIC

vincent himpe

Re: Today

but ...

Gigabytes of code, boot times of minutes. Billions of transistors in multicore cpu's.

All for something that really only needs 8K of rom, a few thousand transistors and can boot in less than a few milliseconds.

And the emulation is probably slower than the real electron...

We've come pretty far ...

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