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Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 10:10:30 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  5 10:10:30 1984
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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).

hey! _R_E_A_L PDP-8s only had 4k-words, and ran FOCAL (FOrmula CALculator),
a nice little interactive language.  If your program was too big,
you could throw away the trig functions!  How do you run a screen editor
on an asr33 teletype?  Storing your programs was no problem, just roll up
the paper tape and pop it in a 35mm film can.  Those were the days....
-- 
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