It is generally agreed that FOCAL was more efficient in its use of resources than comparable BASIC systems; on a typical machine of the day (often with 6 to 24 kilobytes of core memory), FOCAL could handle larger and more difficult programming tasks than BASIC.
FOCAL was more efficient in its use of resources than comparable BASIC systems. This was what it is generally agreed. FOCAL could handle larger and more difficult programming tasks than BASIC. This is on a typical machine of the day (often with 6 to 24 kilobytes of core memory).