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Not to nitpick on the author. But 16KB was quite a bit memory in early 1970's.
by cygwin98 15y ago
Not to nitpick on the author. But 16KB was quite a bit memory in early 1970's.
- ajross 15y agoIndeed: 147456 (probably plus some for parity; not sure what the PDP-7 memory bus looked like) tiny little beads threaded onto tiny wires by human beings. That amount of memory in an SRAM array (almost a million transistors!) was unthinkable in a minicomputer, and DRAM had just been invented and was even more expensive than core.