On Mar 22, 2005, at 1:54 AM, Peter wrote:

> if it had more than 300 lines of code

Someone else lowered the ante from "a basic interpreter" to "the loader
for the B.I.", which seems much more reasonable.   IIRC, back in those
days such things could be extremely simple, and it's not unthinkable
that someone could write one on a plane flight, especially if they
had seen something similar before.  And 300 instructions would have
been very long for such a beast; recall that the basic interpreter
itself probably fit in 4k or so, some systems had 1K or memory (or
less total), and when toggling things in on a front panel, brevity
was definitely a virtue.  No flight simulators easter eggs in THOSE
days!

BillW
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