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Re: Computer Memory usage? 

By: Zimbler0 in POPE IV | Recommend this post (2)
Sun, 09 Oct 16 11:18 PM | 63 view(s)
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Micro> SO we BOTH have experiences dating back to windows 3.1 and even before with Cobal and Fortran programming.


Try DEC PDP8-A minicomputer. Running an assembly
language program with the equivalent of just 48K bytes of RAM. Core memory and what it did was just
unbelievable.

In the shop I once had a Landmart VDT - custom built
computer with twin eight inch floppy disk drives. It
had an 8085 8 bit processor chip, and only 48 K-bytes
of RAM. I was keeping the shop inventory on it, and
the data file was bigger than the RAM. When I wanted
to sort the thing by location (for the annual physical count)
it would grind away sorting and stuffing back on the
disk for near eight hours. Nowadays the Inventory is in
an Access database and it sorts in a flash.

On the personal side, the first 'real computer' I'd
say I owned was a Radio Shack color computer. With
a single 5-1/4 floppy drive. Processor was a 6809
8/16 bit processor with 64 K-bytes of RAM.

After that I bought myself a Macintosh SE computer.
With a whopping One MegaByte of RAM. I upgraded that
to four Megabytes.

My work made me use Windows . . . and a few ragged out
Windows machines 'dropped into my lap'. Finally I went
to the dork side and bought the XP machine. When Windows 7
was hot I bought the Windows 7 machine. Both serve
my needs nicely.

Zim.




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Re: Computer Memory usage?
By: micro in POPE IV
Sun, 09 Oct 16 8:30 PM 		Msg. 11915 of 47202

ZIm

windows 98 S.E. was a great system, small and it worked.
IF ya had a newer MOBO that could put a newer quad core or even a hyperthreaded I-5 or I-7 on it, it would be a beast.
A blur from cold start to desktop.

Yes sir, I have been building machines since windows first came out as well also. I know my windows 5. was slower than crap with 512 MB of ram in it. It improved after I changed motherboards and had 2 GB of memory in it...

It is not a matter of will it work with less.

It's a matter of SPEED, like in INSTANT. No wait.

That is what I am referring to. Yes, I had XP work on as little 256 MB as well. SLower than a east german Trabant running on 2 cylinders in snow on bald tires.

Anyway, all of my clients I rebuilt or did computer work for have machines that are FAST with plenty of memory to keep them that way.

SO we BOTH have experiences dating back to windows 3.1 and even before with Cobal and Fortran programming.

Cool!!!!

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