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A comment on My 1976 Kim-1.

Re:My 1976 Kim-1 by ChrisMarshallNY on Monday November 06, 2023 @02:11PM (#38167312)
My first was a Commodore VIC-20 (1981, I think), with a machine language monitor module.

It only had 3KB of RAM, so any program of worth was written in machine code.

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Re:My 1976 Kim-1 by timbit42 on Monday November 06, 2023 @03:15PM (#38168315)
The VIC-20 actually has 5 KB of RAM but 1.5 KB of that is used by zero page, the stack, the OS KERNAL and BASIC, leaving 3.5 KB of RAM for BASIC or binary programs. The VIC-20 can be expanded up to 40 KB of RAM but 8 KB of that is not contiguous resulting in a maximum of 28,159 bytes free in BASIC.
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