Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site redwood.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxle!harpo!decvax!decwrl!amd!fortune!foros1!redwood!rpw3 From: rpw3@redwood.UUCP (Rob Warnock) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.apple Subject: Re: The Apple Shaft Message-ID: <53@redwood.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Sep-84 07:21:54 EDT Article-I.D.: redwood.53 Posted: Sat Sep 29 07:21:54 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Oct-84 03:32:43 EDT References: <515@nmtvax.UUCP> <141@cadovax.UUCP> Organization: Rob Warnock, Redwood City, CA Lines: 25 +--------------- | ...Remember the good old days when Wordstar was considered a BIG | program in 24k? ... | | Keith Doyle | {ucbvax,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd +--------------- 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 UUCP: {ihnp4,ucbvax!amd}!fortune!redwood!rpw3 DDD: (415)369-7437 Envoy: rob.warnock/kingfisher USPS: Suite 203, 4012 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94061