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Re: Windows 11 is now available [message #411777 is a reply to message #411772]

Fri, 08 October 2021 08:13

Harry Vaderchi
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On Fri, 08 Oct 2021 04:53:56 GMT
Branimir Maksimovic <branimir.maksimovic@icloud.com> wrote:

> 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
>

I was starting high and was hoping to progress via mechanical
calculators/sliderules to end with "my grandad just counted pebbles".

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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
		Re: Windows 11 is now available By: Harry Vaderchi on Fri, 08 October 2021 15:55
		Re: Windows 11 is now available By: Ahem A Rivet's Shot on Fri, 08 October 2021 15:30
		Re: Windows 11 is now available By: Anonymous on Sat, 09 October 2021 04:15
		Re: Windows 11 is now available By: Harry Vaderchi on Sat, 09 October 2021 06:37
		Re: Windows 11 is now available By: Anonymous on Sat, 09 October 2021 04:11
		Re: Windows 11 is now available By: Anonymous on Sat, 09 October 2021 19:40
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		Re: Windows 11 is now available By: Charlie Gibbs on Sun, 10 October 2021 13:34
		Re: Windows 11 is now available By: Harry Vaderchi on Sun, 10 October 2021 14:39
		Re: Windows 11 is now available By: Anonymous on Sat, 09 October 2021 20:45
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		Re: Windows 11 is now available By: Anne & Lynn Wheel on Fri, 08 October 2021 17:57
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