Re: what's the 64K program size limit refer to? (Compilation Error E51)

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Posted by Steve Auerbach on June 15, 2011 at 06:21:13:

In Reply to: Re: what's the 64K program size limit refer to? (Compilation Error E51) posted by Bob A on June 15, 2011 at 05:18:45:

The NCR 304 (you can find it on Wikipedia) had 4,400 10 character words of CORE memory. 4,000 for us, 400 for the Executive program.
The most basic instruction - Add A to B put the result in C -- took 20 characters.
The favorite trick was to put the initialization code in the data input area; I think we did that on the first Q machines. Read the first data into the no-longer needed code.


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