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anthk • today at 1:36 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

We've got inform7 with an English like language generating complex inform6 OOP optimized code since a few decades and the i7 compiler might even run under a Pentium II with 128MB of RAM under NetBSD. I6, under 32 and a Pentium. And maybe even less. ZMachine games themselves (the biggest v8 ones) under the Frotz interpreter, under a 486 and 8MB (with FreeDOS and Frotz). Or maybe an Amiga or a m68k Mac with the same amount of RAM.

Now imagine what AMD64 machine can do with 2GB of RAM (minimum baseline for legacy, maybe some C2D computer) today.


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freeone3000 • today at 4:30 AM

inform7 is closer to a dsl than a general purpose language. We might be looking at something closer to spark/ada.