13 Dec
2001
13 Dec
'01
4 p.m.
Bill McDermith
Perhaps today when you can pack arbitrarily large amounts of
hardware on a chip, memory is (practically) free, we (mostly) all
have internet connections, disks are gigantic, and computer
systems are cheap (er, inexpensive), it's hard to understand the
pdp-8 and contemporary computers... ;-)
This is something I get hit with on a daily basis. On the one hand I need
to have better than 64M for Windows!?! But my PIC projects barely need the
1024 bytes of ROM/128 bytes of RAM. I often wonder if 16M of RAM will be
enough for my VAX to run. Then I realize that it's not a Windows machine
and I'm happy again. :-)
One of these days I'll get a chance to get my VAX's up and running!
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