You, sir, definately worked on some ancient hardware. My calculator has more flash/ram than that machine did, and actually allows higher-level languages ;-) (imagine what they could have done with a modern Ti-8x calculator ;-)
side note: most motorola phones now support java, which means that they *must* have more cpu/ram/flash than that particular computer did ;-) btw, weren't those machines the size of a large room? On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 07:45:15 -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > > > > > <old-timer-speak> > > You young sprouts have it easy. When *I* got into computing, > > bootstrapping consisted of a half-hour of keying in a binary paper > > tape loader into low memory of a machine with a 60 kbyte hard drive > > and about 5 kbytes of RAM. And when you were done, the OS consisted of > > an assembler that used hexadecimal op codes and a subroutine library. > > </old-timer-speak> > > Hey, if it was good enough for John Von Neumann and his friends to > design hydrogen bombs, it was good enough for me. :) > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- ________________________________________ To avoid being added to my spam filter: 1. Utilize list replies unless otherwise requested. 2. If you DO send me a personal email, use english. 3. HTML isn't cute. It belongs on the web, not in my inbox. -- [email protected] mailing list
