On 25.05.2011, at 23:58, Ian MacArthur wrote: > > On 25 May 2011, at 21:51, Matthias Melcher wrote: >> Again, unless you are running on a Z80 or 6502 (or PDP11), this does not >> have any effect on performance. > > Well, it's been a while, but yes, I have programmed for all of the above. > Though not using fltk.... > > I used to support a whole programming department on 3 PDP-11's (two 11-24's > and an 11-73.) > They had a whole 1MB of RAM, and one had a 200MB Fujitsu Double-Eagle hard > disk (the size of a filing cabinet drawer). > Such mighty computing power. > > My phone is more powerful (but much harder to spool a 9-track tape into.)
I met a retured IBM engineer on the train a couple of weeks ago. He remembered how he fixed the magnatic core RAM of a machine with a sewing needle and copper wire as a thread ;-) He was very excited that I knew what he was talking about, but eventually his wife rolled her eyes (having hear these stories probably a million times) and he shut up quickly. Having found a ZX80 emulator on the web somewhere, I was surprised how I glorified that first machine of mine, and how very very little is actually possible with it from todays point of view. - Matthias _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
