scott wrote:
>>> We added 1MB of memory to an IBM 370/168 in the mid 70s.  Price? $50000.
>>
>> Ouch! o_O
>>
>> It still somewhat blows my mind that you could do anything useful with 
>> so little memory.
> 
> You could do useful stuff with *far* less.

We ran an entire school district on 32K of RAM and 16M of online disk.
Core memory, so cycle time close to a milisecond, let alone nanosecond.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
    you literally shooting yourself in the foot.

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