10 Apr
1997
10 Apr
'97
9:09 a.m.
Due to massive amounts of caffeine & sleep deprivation, hellige said:
On 11-Apr-97, classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu wrote:
>When I look at the software (and hardware) of 10-15 years ago, I realise
>how far _down_ we've gone since then.
Here, Here!
Take
for example the Atari 800...this is a 2mhz 6502 cpu with 48k RAM and a full
Basic, with full-screen editing, in an 8k ROM.
Ummm... just a nitpicker's note:
The Full-screen editor & other stuff were in 10K Rom, with the Basic in
another 8K Rom, totalling 18K.
Of course, there were 3rd party upgrade boards that would up the memory to
256K to be used as a Ram drive or as a printer buffer... How many people
you know nowadays who are hacking their 486/Pentium machines to be able to
use over 5x more memory than it's supposed to???
I love geezers!
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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