Re:Show HN: 8086/8088 assembler that runs over 8088 hardware...
by dragonwriter on Friday October 04, 2019 @08:50AM
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> That may seem tiny today, but in the 8086/8088 era, it's huge; the first IBM PC in its minimum configuration had only 16K RAM.
The minimum configuration of the first IBM PC isn't really a guide to a anything about the 8088/8086 era except the low end at the very beginning. Maxing out the 640K limit was common for 8088/8086 PC clones by the end of the era, and 30KB binaries for programming tools wouldn't be outlandish.
The minimum configuration of the first IBM PC isn't really a guide to a anything about the 8088/8086 era except the low end at the very beginning. Maxing out the 640K limit was common for 8088/8086 PC clones by the end of the era, and 30KB binaries for programming tools wouldn't be outlandish.