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		miohtama on Jan 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: 1.5kb Microkernel for Ben Eater's 6502 Co... This reminds me of C64 tape loaders or "turboa" that need to load the program to RAM. https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue57/turbotape.htm... Also let's not forget Bill Gates's 17 bytes loader https://hackaday.com/2017/03/24/doing-it-with-fewer-bytes-th...

localhost on Jan 18, 2020 [–]

Anyone else remember the PET Rabbit [1]?

"Load, Save, Verify, Execute 8 K in 38 seconds versus PETs 2 Minute 45 seconds, plus more!"

There was a newer version that I had which was called the ROM Rabbit vs. this version that you had to load and save each time.

[1] http://archive.6502.org/publications/pet_paper/pet_paper_v3_...

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