8 Jul
2016
8 Jul
'16
1:59 p.m.
On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, Sean Conner wrote:
That's it. I was even able to edit files that
exceeded the RAM of the
machine (I didn't do it often since it was sluggish but it could handle it).
Many early word processing programs were limited to RAM. It was common
practice to use a separate file per chapter, sometimes splitting aq
chapter into two files.
But, a few programs did page in from disk.
'Course with disk(s) of 100K - 250K, you still might need more than one
disk for a book.