Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site intelca.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!amd!intelca!glen From: glen@intelca.UUCP (Glen Shires) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.apple Subject: Re: The Apple Shaft Message-ID: <418@intelca.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 15:31:46 EDT Article-I.D.: intelca.418 Posted: Mon Oct 1 15:31:46 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Oct-84 06:44:02 EDT References: <515@nmtvax.UUCP> <141@cadovax.UUCP> <53@redwood.UUCP> Organization: Intel, Santa Clara, Ca. Lines: 36 +--------------- | ...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 The PDP-8 we used in high school had 16K twelve-bit words (24Kbytes) and ran time-sharing TSS-8 with up to 8 users [8Kwords for the operating system and 4Kwords for each user (swapped in&out from disk)]. We had a very good chess program that ran in 4Kwords (6Kbytes). Theorem: if you have a lot of memory, you use it. Corrolary: if you don't have it, you make do. -- ^ ^ Glen Shires, Intel, Santa Clara, Ca. O O Usenet: {ucbvax!amd,pur-ee,hplabs}!intelca!glen > ARPA: "amd!intelca!glen"@BERKELEY \-/ --- stay mellow