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Date: Sat, 29-Sep-84 07:21:54 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 29 07:21:54 1984
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Organization: Rob Warnock, Redwood City, CA
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| ...Remember the good old days when Wordstar was considered a BIG
| program in 24k? ...
|
| Keith Doyle
| {ucbvax,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd
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No, I skipped that generation. But in MY "good ol' days" an 8K-word PDP-8
(12K byte-equivalent) comfortably ran TECO (an editor), TED (a screen editor
written in TECO), and even *gasp* FORTRAN (both the compiler and user programs).
Of course, with 12K (18 Kbyte-equiv) you could run the batch system, or even
foreground/background multi-tasking real-time (keep editing and compiling while
you control and collect data from those experiments [plural] in your lab).
Oh yeah, and about a half-million instructions per second. And cheaper than
a Mac.

(So, there!)

Rob Warnock

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