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; the "monitor ROM" of an apple 1 fit in one page (256 bytes). | |
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; this is my attempt to take the disassembled code, give names to the | |
; variables and routines, and try to document how it worked. | |
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; an apple 1 had 8KB of RAM (more, if you hacked on the motherboard), and a | |
; peripheral chip that drove the keyboard and video. the video was run by a | |
; side processor that could treat the display as an append-only terminal that |