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Posted by Richard Crowley on 12/06/05 18:54
"Martin Heffels" wrote ...
> "bmcswain" wrote:
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>>It is SO remarkable where we have come from and where we are.
>>I remember the day when IBM doubled (DOUBLED) memory for the 3084 - a
>>monster maimframe - doubled the memory to 64 meg! WOW! HUGE! How
>>will customers EVER use all that memory?
>
> I worked in an air-traffic-control center, where they ditched the
> 370 mainframe 5 years ago. It only had 64MB to run all the apps, but they
> were all written in nice and clean assembly, so there was still plenty of
> space left in that RAM :)
Well, if we're playing "can you top that?"....
When I first came to Intel (1978), we were running "e-test"
(electrical testing of individual transistors, etc while still on the
wafer) with a test system (Lomac) run by an S-100 bus
computer, a Z80 microcomputer with 64KB of RAM and
two 240Kb 8-inch floppy drives. I wrote test software for
the machine and within the 64KB RAM, we got...
1. CP/M operating system
2. Basic interpereter (including Lomac's extentions)
3. Test code
4. Test parameter array
5. Data results array
But e-test was two careers ago and I don't know what they
are using now. Generic PCs, I'd suspect.
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