On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 01:32:03PM -0000, Russell Nelson wrote:
> D. J. Bernstein writes:
> > Russell Nelson writes:
> > > We've got a kick-ass machine here (PII-300, 256K RAM),
> >
> > Wow, that's big. My Apple II has only 48K RAM. Nice to hear that qmail
> > takes advantage of the server's whopping quarter-megabyte of memory. :-)
>
> I must be showing my age. I remember when 48K of RAM *was* a big
> machine, and how excited I was to upgrade my development machine to
> 32K -- "Now I'll have enough memory to write anything!"
That's not really an age thing. I'm 17, and I remember how happy my 16KB
memory extension made me. _anything_ fit in there, and I do mean _anything_.
This was on a Sinclair ZX-81, btw :)
[You can't program a decent Pacman clone in Basic with only 1KB.. at least...
I couldn't when I was 7 years old. Quickly ran out of memory :(]
Greetz, Peter.
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