On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 08:39 -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote: > 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. You had to make sure the programs were ready to read the data at the right time or it would be slow, having to wait for the drum to come around again. I knew a guy(1) that could make nearly any program work faster as he optimized them to read and be ready to read when the data was able to be read. He counted and re-organized the programs for execution according to the drum rotation. He was paid more than the anyone at Zenith... even the CEO. I don't remember his name, but he was a very modest man, giving an excess income to charity (which was most of it). (1) == Well, knew is relative. my Dad worked with him at Heath in the Early 70's, my Dad and I met him regularly on Saturday morning for breakfast at Hilltop <something> Restaurant in St. Joesph, MI. The restaurant was east of "Cleveland and Hilltop" over the railroad tracks. -- greg@gregfolkert.net Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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