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Over two decades, as you pointed out in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11559869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11559869.
by jwilk 4y ago
Over two decades, as you pointed out in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11559869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11559869.
- userbinator 4y ago...and that was almost 7 years ago too, during which my second link there also died; but that was before the rise of all the AI stuff and its accompanying demand for GPUs with otherwise insane amounts of VRAM.
- gruturo 4y agoMake that three decades ago. In 1992 I was using a utility called VGADISK to create a 176K ramdisk in the VGA memory - this was on a 286 "laptop" (rather a luggable) with 1MB of RAM, and allowed me to fit entire programs in there as long as they didn't use VGA graphics (which would instantly corrupt the content of the ramdrive). Still online thanks to http://www.retroarchive.org/garbo/pc/memutil/index.html http://www.retroarchive.org/garbo/pc/memutil/index.html - a whopping 8KB zip archive, so about 30 seconds on my 2400bps modem (assuming V42 or MNP4)