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When adding 256 kilowords of memory to your PDP-10 cost $230,000 (2022 dollars) you were either clever or unemployed. If your programs couldn't run on the mach
by Suzuran 4y ago
When adding 256 kilowords of memory to your PDP-10 cost $230,000 (2022 dollars) you were either clever or unemployed.
If your programs couldn't run on the machine you had, they were no good. Nobody was going to spend a quarter million dollars on equipment for the sake of source code beautification.