Re: Woody on 486 problem
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:43:26AM +0100, Mirko Scurk wrote:
>
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:50:21 -0600, Ron Johnson
> > <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> said:
> >
> >> I was just *waiting* for someone to open the door and let us
> >> greybeards play "remember when"!!!
> >
> >> Remember when Win95 ran well with 16MB RAM? (Shame on you!!)
> >
> >> Remember when OS/2 ran *great* with 16MB RAM?
> >
> >> Remember when Doom ran great on Linux and fvwm, with 16MB RAM and
> >> et4000/W32p video card?
> >
> > Ha! Remember when computers meant handing over a deck of punch cards
> > to feed to a Soviet-made IBM-360 EC1030 with manuals in Russian, and
> > coming back the next week to learn that you forgot to start your
> > comment on column 6 of the card 134, and so there was no output?
> >
> > manoj
>
> What about IBM 1130 - my first computer on University. Or, my god, when I
> firs time saw MicroPDP-11!
>
> Its amazing how we regulary suck-seed to slip into OT!
>
> --
> Mirko Scurk
I remember when I got to use a machine without the regular RAM we all
take for granted now; main memory was a magnetic drum with tracks of
108 29-bit words. The length of a loop was quantized to be a multiple
of time for a complete drum revolution.
-- hendrik
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