TI-99 ... (Business Graphs 99). I wrote it in TI-Forth. It ran from a floppy. Fun times.
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jerry Wolper Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 2:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Funny flashback Friday memory > The only memory problems I see these days are to do with allocating gigabytes and > gigabytes of base memory to VM's... what a change from using 4Kb and > 8Kb machines > which had to use overlays held on tape and/or the latest 2.5Mb (yes > Mega Byte) fixed > Exchangeable drives (FEDS). 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. -Jerry --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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.
