12 Feb
2010
12 Feb
'10
11:17 a.m.
On 12 Feb 2010 at 10:16, jd wrote:
I never heard of a whopping option for the s360. Was
it useful? Could
it be used in PC's?
I thought the "whopping" option applied only to the model 20. As in
"whopping stupid".
It's interesting to go back to the old documenation and remember how
much space an operating system could take. On a 360/40, DOS could
occupy all of 8K bytes--and that was with support for one background
and two foreground partitions. Granted, the number of transient
phases was considerable, but this hails from a time when an OS was
considered to be a necessary evil that was best kept to a minimum.
How far we've come!
--Chuck