z-machine on pdp8 (or paging Woodelf)

[David Griffith]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, woodelf wrote:

> Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> > When you say "game data", do you mean the impure area?  If so, I'd
> > agree for v5 games, but it's substantially less for v3 games - i.e.,
> > the ones that shipped for the Apple II and the TRS-80 and the C-64,
> > etc.  The larger of the home 8-bitters could run some v5 games, but I
> > think 32K was the cutoff - machines that had 32K or less were never
> > asked to run v5 games.
> > -ethan
>
> Also a Z-machine requires a termial rather than a TTY.

Not true.  Dumb Frotz simply emits text.


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