On 09/07/2011 04:25 PM, Darren New wrote:

> I was thinking about it, and I realized the giant mainframe I learned to
> program on had 512K of memory to run the entire college, both
> administrative and teaching. Back then I never really thought of it -
> you had the memory you had and if something didn't fit you made it smaller.

I wonder how many octets you can fit on one side of A4 paper? You could 
probably *print out* 512KB and not use all that many trees...

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