POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Paraniod : Re: Paraniod Server Time
7 Sep 2024 23:25:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Paraniod  
From: John VanSickle
Date: 4 Jul 2008 19:02:47
Message: <486eac17@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:43:47 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> 
>> You can't even buy a hard drive that won't hold five Commodore Pet
>> computers worth of memory for every *bit* of memory a Commodore Pet
>> could address.
> 
> I'm trying to remember - what was the addressable space fro the Pet?  
> There were so many models, but the address space was the same on all of 
> them IIRC.

They were all limited to what the 6502 processor could handle, which was 
as has been said by others here.  Early Pets had only 8K of RAM 
installed, but some machines were bulked out to 32K.  To think that 
those things retailed for $1k in 1979 dollars...

Regards,
John


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