TI-99 ... (Business Graphs 99). I wrote it in TI-Forth. It ran from a
floppy. Fun times.
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From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Jerry
Wolper
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 2:20 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: RE: Funny flashback Friday
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
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> > This all puts me in mind
On Tue, 11 Jul 2017, at 08:20 AM, Jerry Wolper wrote:
> >
> 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
> 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
On 2017-07-10 14:07, Paul H. Tarver wrote:
It's funny really. These days, I tell my clients how small of a
footprint my
applications will have on their systems because we can do full
installations
with data and debug logs fully populated with less than 100Mb.
It's surprising how many people
: Funny flashback Friday memory
On 2017-07-10 04:29, Alan Bourke wrote:
>> <mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>> > I recall back in the late 90s or early 2000s people poo-pooing the
>> > VFP installations that had to carry the 15 megaby
Yes. These are purely app servers and we have 100+ of them. Cleaning out
the non-necessary logs just to have room is a RPITA. At least for those
people in opps. I only have to maintain 3 SQL servers where I do run into
similar things.
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:45 AM, <
On 2017-07-10 11:35, Stephen Russell wrote:
Our virtual server was set as a C & D drive each at 100 G.
Symantec anti-virus has killed that 100 G size on the C:\ making us
give
200 G for a C drive nowadays.
Wait...are you saying SAV needed a ton of space so that's why you
increased the
Our virtual server was set as a C & D drive each at 100 G.
Symantec anti-virus has killed that 100 G size on the C:\ making us give
200 G for a C drive nowadays.
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 10:11 AM, <
mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote:
> On 2017-07-10 04:29, Alan Bourke wrote:
>
>>
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Sent: 10 July 2017 16:11
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Subject: Re: Funny flashback Friday memory
On 2017-07-10 04:29, Alan Bourke wrote:
>> <m
On 2017-07-10 11:16, Alan Bourke wrote:
On Mon, 10 Jul 2017, at 04:11 PM,
mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
Does anybody complain about the size of any softwares anymore?
These days it tends to be complaining about major console game releases
requiring multi-GB day one
On Mon, 10 Jul 2017, at 04:11 PM,
mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
> Does anybody complain about the size of any softwares anymore?
These days it tends to be complaining about major console game releases
requiring multi-GB day one patches (up to 15GB is not unheard of) before
On 2017-07-10 04:29, Alan Bourke wrote:
wrote:
> I recall back in the late 90s or early 2000s people poo-pooing the VFP
> installations that had to carry the 15 megabyte runtimes also besides the
> program/application EXE itself. LOL
Ditto
> > wrote:
>
> > I recall back in the late 90s or early 2000s people poo-pooing the VFP
> > installations that had to carry the 15 megabyte runtimes also besides the
> > program/application EXE itself. LOL
Ditto people complaining about the size of
Because a full install of your app didn't fit on one disk.
On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 8:21 AM, wrote:
> I recall back in the late 90s or early 2000s people poo-pooing the VFP
> installations that had to carry the 15 megabyte runtimes also besides the
>
I recall back in the late 90s or early 2000s people poo-pooing the VFP
installations that had to carry the 15 megabyte runtimes also besides
the program/application EXE itself. LOL
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