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Have you any idea how much memory cost back then? Individual magnetic cores hand threaded to make small planes if memory. Late 70s we bought 1.5Mb of memory fo
by Taniwha 5y ago
Have you any idea how much memory cost back then? Individual magnetic cores hand threaded to make small planes if memory.
Late 70s we bought 1.5Mb of memory for our mainframe, we paid more than a million dollars. The phone in your pocket is 10,000 times faster, has 2000 times more memory, and is 10,000 times cheaper than that mainframe
No one practically worried about supporting 2Gb systems, people wrote small, tight code, spending time to make things fit