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"Vector was late in moving from machines with 8K processing to 16K, which had become the new industry standard." I was interested in S100 bus machines, but coul
by nimfan 2y ago
"Vector was late in moving from machines with 8K processing to 16K, which had become the new industry standard." I was interested in S100 bus machines, but couldn't afford one! If I'd only known, I'd have borrowed to buy a Vector Graphic S100 back then, just for the novelty of having an 8192-bit CPU! ;-)
- mkesper 2y agoThe CPU was a Z80, that must have been RAM. http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/Vector%20Graphic/VG%208K%20SRAM/VG%208K%20SRAM.htm http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/Vector%20Grap...
- buescher 2y agoNo, it looks more like a misunderstanding. The Vector 3 was an 8-bit machine with 64K of RAM. https://web.archive.org/web/20110925031455/http://www.vectorgraphics.org.uk/page6.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110925031455/http://www.vector... The arrival of the IBM PC (and PC-DOS/MS-DOS) in 1981 was an extinction-level event for the CP/M-based, mostly-Z80-based, 8-bit business microcomputer industry. Vector did not weather it.
- garius 2y agoYup. Downside of how much tech has changed is stuff gets missed in a copy edit because the numbers sound so silly (to modern ears) they assume I haven't screwed up a typo or find/replace. I'll flag it.
- grujicd 2y agoIt was a clear sign that author doesn't know a difference between 8-bit CPU and 8K of RAM and what kind of transition was happening at the time.