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Re: Windows 11 is now available [message #411772 is a reply to message #411771]

Fri, 08 October 2021 00:53

Anonymous

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Originally posted by: Branimir Maksimovic

On 2021-10-08, Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
> On Thursday, October 7, 2021 at 3:59:35 AM UTC-6, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
>
>> Kids today! WIWAL we 'ad 1M RAM between 20 users! & storage was punch
>> cards.
>
> I remember that they could connect five users - each with their own
> interactive terminal (an ASR 33 Teletype) to a PDP-8 with 12K of RAM
> (in today's units; 8K words, each 12 bits long) and a head-per-track
> disk with a capacity of 32K words.
>
> So time-sharing is possible with even less memory per user.
>
> John Savard

Well on unisys you could connect more then 100 terminals
on machine with only 4mb of ram,
because terminals had logic for input, and all that
was exchanged was just packets sent :P

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		Re: Windows 11 is now available By: Harry Vaderchi on Thu, 07 October 2021 05:25
		Re: Windows 11 is now available By: Quadibloc on Fri, 08 October 2021 00:49
		Re: Windows 11 is now available By: Anonymous on Fri, 08 October 2021 00:53
		Re: Windows 11 is now available By: Harry Vaderchi on Fri, 08 October 2021 08:13
		Re: Windows 11 is now available By: Anonymous on Fri, 08 October 2021 14:40
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		Re: Windows 11 is now available By: Harry Vaderchi on Sat, 09 October 2021 06:37
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