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I am getting old...
I remember my firt computer, a VIC20. It had 5 kB of RAM and ASCII-Graphics.
When you wanted to draw something fancy, let's say plot the sin-function,
you had to fill the screen with characters from 0-255, map the characters
from ROM to RAM and then redefine the the respective 8x16 bit-blocks for
each character to achieve the respective dots.
The VIC cost me a small fortune...
And now, for the same price: Quadcore with 8 MB cache (1600x more), 4 GB RAM
(almost 1 million times more), 512 kB Graphics card (100.000x more RAM).
We used to store our data on a cassete-tape (for thoses who do not know: in
pre-CD times audio was stored on tape - one side 30 min.).
But hey, we were proud to have this. After all, the US lunar lander had a
highly developed computer on board that had only 1 kB of memory ;-) - this
was a lot better.
"Invisible" <voi### [at] dev null> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:48981542$1@news.povray.org...
> When I left my dad's house on Sunday, we had has old Amiga 1200 up and
> running, and he was using it to run a ZX Spectrum emulator.
>
> So... he's using an obsolete computer... to emulate a prehistoric
> computer... ELITE! o_O
>
> --
> http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
> http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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