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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7465115.stm
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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7465115.stm
128 bytes of RAM in 1948.
30 years later the popular Atari 2600 was published, which had a whopping
amount of 128 bytes of RAM.
Not much of an improvement, I would say. :P
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Warp wrote:
> 128 bytes of RAM in 1948.
>
> 30 years later the popular Atari 2600 was published, which had a whopping
> amount of 128 bytes of RAM.
>
> Not much of an improvement, I would say. :P
Size and Wattage difference, much? ;-)
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Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7465115.stm
>
> 128 bytes of RAM in 1948.
That included the program space.
> 30 years later the popular Atari 2600 was published, which had a whopping
> amount of 128 bytes of RAM.
No, it had >4K of RAM. It was just ROM RAM.
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Invisible, do you actually USE POV-Ray for anything, or do you just come here to
stimulate our minds and torment us? Just curious...
I'd like to see some artwork of some sort :)
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Robert McGregor wrote:
> Invisible, do you actually USE POV-Ray for anything, or do you just come here to
> stimulate our minds and torment us? Just curious...
>
> I'd like to see some artwork of some sort :)
*checks*
Right. At this time, I do not actually have POV-Ray installed on this
PC. (I recently reinstalled Windoze. There's a bunch of things I haven't
put back yet.)
Most of my renderings are lame anyway. Have a wander through the IRTC
and see if you can ring "slush candle" (or was it "ice candle"?) You'll
see what I mean.
OTOH, I could enjoy rendering some more isosurfaces sometime soon...
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> Most of my renderings are lame anyway. Have a wander through the IRTC
> and see if you can ring "slush candle" (or was it "ice candle"?) You'll
> see what I mean.
Oh yeah, "Slush Candle" - I just looked it up and it's not lame. Now I remember
seeing it before - the "Fire and Ice" round; surprisingly I took first place
that round, even beating out the mighty Tek.
:)
"There is no spoon."
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Robert McGregor wrote:
> Invisible, do you actually USE POV-Ray for anything, or do you just come here to
> stimulate our minds and torment us? Just curious...
>
> I'd like to see some artwork of some sort :)
>
We need to start a support group for POV-Ray addicts who don't seem to
use POV-Ray much...
...Chambers
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Chambers wrote:
> We need to start a support group for POV-Ray addicts who don't seem to
> use POV-Ray much...
...and what the heck is the off-topic group for??
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On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:15:31 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> No, it had >4K of RAM. It was just ROM RAM.
What's that?
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Joel Yliluoma wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:15:31 -0700, Darren New wrote:
>> No, it had >4K of RAM. It was just ROM RAM.
>
> What's that?
As in, being "Read-only memory" does not prevent it from being "random
access memory". Your BIOS is stored in ROM RAM (modulo your ability to
reflash it). Your disk is not RAM, even though you can write to it.
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> As in, being "Read-only memory" does not prevent it from being "random
> access memory".
AFAIK the term RAM implies read/write access, as opposed to the term ROM,
which is read-only. The two terms are never mixed.
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Warp wrote:
> AFAIK the term RAM implies read/write access, as opposed to the term ROM,
> which is read-only. The two terms are never mixed.
That's a very common perception, but technically incorrect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM
Typically, yes, people refer to volatile cell-writable memory as "RAM"
because that's for the most part the only kind of RAM desktop type
machines have these days. E.g., the BIOS isn't big enough to make a
significant difference in calculating how much RAM memory you have, but
it is indeed RAM.
There's also the phrase "DASD" - Direct Access Storage Device, which
basically means seekable disk (or drum) rather than tape or punched
cards or something sequential like that.
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> That's a very common perception, but technically incorrect.
If we get all that technical, "ROM RAM" doesn't make sense when you
open it up: "Read-only memory random access memory".
If anything, it would be RORAM.
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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> That's a very common perception, but technically incorrect.
>
> If we get all that technical, "ROM RAM" doesn't make sense when you
> open it up: "Read-only memory random access memory".
Fair enough. If you unpack the acronym, you need to change the words. :-)
> If anything, it would be RORAM.
I feel like I'm in a Scooby Doo cartoon. :-)
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Darren New wrote:
> I feel like I'm in a Scooby Doo cartoon. :-)
Darren Darren New, where are you??
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
> > I feel like I'm in a Scooby Doo cartoon. :-)
> Darren Darren New, where are you??
This is a bit crazy, but whenever I read Darren's surname, I alway see
it as "Dew". I can't help it.
In fact, it took me a rather long time to realize that his surname was
not, in fact, "Dew".
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Warp wrote:
> This is a bit crazy, but whenever I read Darren's surname, I alway see
> it as "Dew". I can't help it.
That's kind of weird. :-)
My wife is Chinese (naturalized, now). When she gets introduced as "Mrs
New", all the Chinese folks hear "Mrs Nu" (or "Mrs Ngu" maybe). Then
when the meet me, they're all surprised I'm caucasian. It's pretty funny
, overall.
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