Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!ihuxl!seifert From: seifert@ihuxl.UUCP (D.A. Seifert) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.apple Subject: Re: Memory size and the PDP-8 Message-ID: <1385@ihuxl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 10:10:30 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxl.1385 Posted: Fri Oct 5 10:10:30 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Oct-84 05:24:35 EDT References: <515@nmtvax.UUCP> <141@cadovax.UUCP> <53@redwood.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 16 > 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.... -- "We've got a full tank of gas, it's dark, and we're _____ wearing sunglasses" /_____\ "Hit it!" /_______\ |___| Snoopy ____|___|_____ ihnp4!ihuxl!seifert