Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 10:13:19 -0400
From: Greg Troxel <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
| if you set the
| wayback machine to a VAX with 1MB of RAM and a 100 MB disk, or 8MB and
| 250 MB. I'm fuzzy on the exact numbers, but I'm sure kernel RAM usage
| was a much bigger deal than disk.
A 780 would usually have been 4MB RAM, though 1 was possible.
Sometimes 8. A couple of systems went beyond what was expected
and had 12. ENORMOUS. A 750 might have had only 1 or 2.
A 730 I don't recall, but those things ran slower than a snail
through molasses, almost unusable.
Disk varied, 60MB was common early (usually 2 of them), some 300MB
were around. Then 335MB eagles appeared (lots cheaper than the earlier
300MB revovables ... until then, essentially everything was removable
packs). Having 2 eagles was luxury indeed!
As for ram vs disk space ... running a system with hundreds of
user accounts, all sharing 30 or 60MB, made disk conservation
and management critical - hence quotas. Undergrad users might
have only been allowed 50KB of long term storage...
kre
ps: when doing comparisons, remember that those were the days
when a MB was a MB, not just a wimpy million bytes!
