18 Nov
2012
18 Nov
'12
6:16 p.m.
what game was this?
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
I went through my larval phase on VMS on an 11/780, and I think it had
something like 60M of _disk_ (well, for my first year or two on it;
after that, I think we got two 300M washing-machine drives). If you
think 32M of RAM is "tiny", you've already succumbed to serious
bloat-tolerance. (Perhaps the best videogame I've ever played occupied
a total of 24K - that's 24576 bytes - of ROM. Including the code and
all the graphics constants.)
Are you saying Linux is more scalable and
fault-tolerant than VMS?
[Linux] scales from tiny embedded machines (the smallest I
use daily
has IIRC 32 MB of memory and a 50 MHz PPC CPU) The art _has_ moved on from when VMS was king of
scalability.
"Moved on" to the point that thinks 32M of RAM is "tiny"?
Sic transit gloria mundi.
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