Orchid XP v8 escreveu:
>>> It still somewhat blows my mind that you could do anything useful 
>>> with so little memory. Presumably for processing large datasets, most 
>>> of the data at any one time would be in secondary storage?
>>
>> Large datasets then were also very tiny compared to large datasets of 
>> today. :)
> 
> Sure. But 1MB is such a tiny amount of memory, it could only hold a few 
> thousand records (depending on their size). It would almost be faster to 
> process them by hand then go to all the trouble of punching cards and 
> feeding them through a computer.

that's not quite what Hollerith found with the American 1890's census. ;)

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