The British version of the Anglo-French Jaguar aircraft was one of the first military aircraft to use digital computing. Its entire navigation and weapon aiming system was in 8k of RAM - some very creative coding was needed :-)
John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 > > This all puts me in mind of the days when hard drives were a high-end > > option, operating systems weren't standardized, and software had to > > fit on the most restrictive machine's floppy. (The TI-99 for what I > > was doing.) There was less than 100K to work with. Megabytes? > > Incomprehensible luxury. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
