Quote Originally Posted by TheCPUWizard
Focal was an interpreted language that was developed in France in the mid-1960's. It became very popular for use on the PDP-8, where the ENTIRE memory space could be as low as 4K words (and maxed out at 16K words).
We've come a long way ... now we have multi gigabytes of RAM

Quote Originally Posted by TheCPUWizard
Believe it or not, you could run a multi-user system (TSS/8) that suppored up to 32 users!
Nice I think back in those days developers had to be much more creative to get certain things done on the available hardware. Of course this also made it much more difficult to program I can imagine. Nowadays, you can write a quick and little application in C# and .NET, however, running this will require the .NET framework which rings in at several megabytes...