From: Tobias Reif Date: 2002-01-16T04:45:33+09:00 Subject: Re: memory usage question Phil Tomson wrote: > Hal E. Fulton wrote: >>From: "Mark Hahn" >> >>Buncha young kids wanna allocate data structures with four million >>items... in my day, we had 64K of RAM and part of that was the OS >>and the runtime. The compiler wouldn't all fit in memory at once. It >>was swapped out to this clunky external Shugart floppy disk drive >>that would walk across the table if you didn't tape it down. It made a >>noise like a boa constrictor gagging on a weasel. And the compiler >>couldn't handle arrays bigger than a thousand elements. >>And we LIKED IT... >> >> > And in my day we had 16K of RAM and no Shugart floppy, we saved our > programs and data on casette tapes, believe it or not, and your program > loaded from tape at about 600 baud... But the worst part was that the > programs we wrote were in BASIC or machine code (not assembly, we're > talking typing in the Hex for he opcodes - we considered ourselves lucky > to not have to toggle our programs in with switches :). Of course we > walked several miles to school in the snow, too. Uphill both ways ;-) I think it's time for a Wiki section ThoseWereTheDays, or OldTimerStories or something. It's really entertaining! Tobi -- http://www.pinkjuice.com/