From: lecoat@atari.org   
      
   Hi,   
      
   Michael Schwingen writes:   
   > Francois LE COAT wrote:   
   >>> (1966 mainframes are my objects of reference where ram was payed   
   >>> by the kilobyte).   
   >>   
   >> That was my birth. At this period there was a Univac at the university   
   >> that was occupying an entire building, and worked with perforated cards.   
   >   
   > Kilobytes are not gone - my current target (STM32F103) has 64kBytes of Flash   
   > and 20kBytes of RAM, and works fine using gcc (yes, with 32-bit ints).   
      
   My Hades060 has 40Mb of RAM, and I can't use virtual memory because   
   it's only possible with 68030 processors. I use GNU/GCC 3.3.6 with it.   
   This amount of memory is just enough to build Persistence Of Vision.   
   POV-Ray in its 3.1g version is very large C language sources, and it   
   requires a lot of memory to be built. It's the largest software I   
   ever built with an ATARI machine. POV-Ray doesn't require so much   
   memory to launch it, but GNU/GCC does because it's very big sources.   
   At the period when I built it, I had no cross-compiler. I had to   
   use the native GNU/GCC. All is simpler when you cross-compile, today.   
   I still don't have GNU/GCC 3.3.6 cross-compiler, that _really_ miss !   
      
   --    
   François LE COAT   
   Author of Eureka 2.12 (2D Graph Describer, 3D Modeller)   
   http://eureka.atari.org/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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