Originally Posted by MarioD
As you well know 255 is the upper limit of 8 bit programming, i.e. 11111111.
Aye. Though very few 8-bit computers were limited to that by 1990. IBM-PCs and Atari-STs were both at least 16-bit friendly by then. I suspect the main concern was disc space. I bought my first home PC in '91 or '92, based on an AMD 386SX-40 and a 10M hard drive.

I struggle still to understand why, even then, PGM limitted to 8-bit? Why right through SG1, SG2 and so on? Crazy?


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