RE: Funny flashback Friday memory

The only memory problems I see these days are to do with allocating

gigabytes and

gigabytes of base memory to VM's... what a change from using 4Kb and 8Kb

machines

which had to use overlays held on tape and/or the latest 2.5Mb (yes Mega

Byte) fixed

Exchangeable drives (FEDS).

This all puts me in mind of the days when hard drives were a high-end option, operating systems weren't standardized, and software had to fit on the most restrictive machine's floppy. (The TI-99 for what I was doing.) There was less than 100K to work with. Megabytes? Incomprehensible luxury.

-Jerry

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