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Comment on Ruby on the Apple II (2019) [video]

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Design a byte code like Sweet 16 or UCSD Pascal, and compile Ruby to that.

It would certainly be more space/time efficient than Manx Aztec C, which was terrible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_C

Hilarious discussion on the talk page -- I used Aztec C but I have not vanished yet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Aztec_C#WHO_vanished%3F

I had a Legend Industries 128KDE memory expansion card on my Apple ][+ -- that would help!

Washington Apple PI, January 1982, p. 12, "I CAN'T REMEMBER HOW MUCH MEMORY I HAVE" by David Morganstein:

https://www.wap.org/journal/showcase/washingtonapplepijourna...

.NET/MSIL is actually somewhat reasonable. I'm working on a loader+interpreter for the //e right now.

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