Forth is the most micro computer system there is, I think we'd

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Forth is the most micro computer system there is, I think we'd all agree, but does it offer you the most bang for your buck?

Here's what you get for 500 kilobytes of disk space or less:

1. A shell

2. A programming language much like a micro lisp

3. An operating system

The forth experts tell me their smallest forth bases (as in no code written on it yet) are around 8 kilobytes. Can you say the same of any other language?

Take c for example. Sure c produces small code but you have to have the massive gcc and gnu make and awk and all this other stuff to compile c code. Even lua or apl or basic can not really produce systems as small or efficient.