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In particular, it's very unlikely that the software that utilities run today is similar to the software that was running 42 years ago. In 1977, even a big mainf
by greenyoda 7y ago
In particular, it's very unlikely that the software that utilities run today is similar to the software that was running 42 years ago. In 1977, even a big mainframe only had a few megs of memory.[1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_303X#IBM_3033 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_303X#IBM_3033 (the top-of-the line IBM mainframe as of 1977 had 4 to 8 megs of RAM and 64K of cache).