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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On Tue, 11 Jul 2017, at 08:20 AM, Jerry Wolper wrote:
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.
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The British version of the Anglo-French Jaguar aircraft was one of the first military aircraft to use digital computing. Its entire navigation and weapon aiming system was in 8k of RAM - some very creative coding was needed :-)
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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.
TI-99 ... (Business Graphs 99). I wrote it in TI-Forth. It ran from a floppy. Fun times.
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Wolper Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 2:20 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: 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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