10 Sep
2025
10 Sep
'25
7:37 p.m.
On 2025-09-10 2:25 p.m., Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
Nope. But I learned programming back when machine
memories were measured in k words -- like the college timesharing 11/20 with 28kW, or the
physics department lab 11/20 with 8 kW (and an RC11 hard drive, 64 kW if I remember
right). For that matter, I remember squeezing CDC 6400 boot code into a 12 word
"deadstart panel" and the secondary boot into a 320 word disk sector.
Nowadays some of the machines I work with have a terabyte of RAM. Mindboggling.
I find it more mind boggling that it runs with out memory errors.
paul
Ben.