Mark Johnson wrote on 10/21/2006 09:43:13 PM: > Keep in mind that 16MB for 32 users is 250 times the memory available circa > late 1970s' with the Microdata Royale series. > > There's something to be said for programming on an older system that gives > you respect for todays horsepower.
I agree 100%. In the late 70s I was working at a Savings and Loan with seven branch offices. There were several teller terminals and one or two VDTs at each branch. We ran with a grand total of 256 KB (not MB - KB) of memory - and that was after the upgrade from 128 KB. [Hey, it seemed like a lot because my TRS-80 only had 4 KB ;-)] You learned to be very efficient. And we couldn't make any programming mistakes. Our online program took all night to compile. We kept a few KB of memory set aside in the program so we could patch in hex code and branch in and out of the main program. At the end of the online day we rebooted the system with different memory parameters for nightly batch processing. Ah, the good old days... Tim Snyder Consulting I/T Specialist U2 Consulting North American Lab Services IBM Software Group ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
