On 19 September 2024 at 12:31, Michael or Penny Novack said: > On 9/19/2024 11:16 AM, Roberts K wrote: > > In my experience the amount of data is relatively small (even for > > thousands of records) > > A bit of historical perspective is needed, particularly because our > heads have not yet absorbed a fundamental change in technology. > > Back in my working days, the IBM 3350's (hard drives) held somewhat over > 300 mbytes each and our programs on the mainframe had about 10 mbytes core > (the OS took about 6 mbytes from every program's virtual space.
<yorkshiremen count="four"> Oooh, luxury. We 'ad 2311s that gave you 7 whole megabytes. We useter DREAM of having 2314s (28 Mb). </yorkshiremen> But you'd still never have got a whole disk worth of data into the (64k) mainframe memory. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
