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I'm trying to remember the name of a dedicated document-processing system; IIRC it had 256k of RAM and it would save its state by dumping the RAM to a 256k form
by aidenn0 3y ago
I'm trying to remember the name of a dedicated document-processing system; IIRC it had 256k of RAM and it would save its state by dumping the RAM to a 256k formatted floppy. It was also quite integrated, but didn't run arbitrary apps.
- EdwardCoffin 3y agoJef Raskin's Canon Cat [1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat
- aidenn0 3y agoThat's the one, thanks. Also helped me locate the spiritual successor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_(software)
- EdwardCoffin 3y agoI liked his book, The Humane Computer, when I read it in 1999. I don’t know how well it has aged. It’s still on my shelf, so perhaps I will try to reread it.
- pests 3y agoWord originally saved this way too - just dumping memory to disk. But also by just appending the diff to the end of the file, letting writes be faster. A lot of legacy stuff there.