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Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 15:31:46 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  1 15:31:46 1984
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| ...Remember the good old days when Wordstar was considered a BIG
| program in 24k? ...
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| 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

The PDP-8 we used in high school had 16K twelve-bit words (24Kbytes)
and ran time-sharing TSS-8 with up to 8 users [8Kwords for the
operating system and 4Kwords for each user (swapped in&out from disk)].
We had a very good chess program that ran in 4Kwords (6Kbytes).



Theorem: if you have a lot of memory, you use it.
Corrolary: if you don't have it, you make do.

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