Date   : Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:08:49 +0200
From   : "Robert Schmidt" <Robert.Schmidt@...>
Subject: Re: Elite

FARAZ CHOUDHRY wrote:
> 
> I ain't joking man, don't underestimate what you can pack into 32K ort
> 64K on a Beeb. 

How could *any* Beeb enthusiast underestimate this, when they've seen
Elite (and also Exile)?

And how could any such enthusiast believe that he can improve so much
more upon Bell, Braben and Duggan's work?

> This computer is no PC, Acorns have always had
> different architectures to PC, anything that takes like 32K on a BBC
> would take like 150-200K on an IBM PC 8086.

You've been fooled by the syndrome that software (especially games) tend
to grow during development to consume available resources.

If a program is larger on an 8086 platform compared to 6502, possible
reasons are either:

1. sloppy programming/optimization (because more resources are 
   available), or
2. more features (because more resources are available)

... or both.

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