RE: Funny flashback Friday memory

2017-07-11 Thread Mike McCann
TI-99 ... (Business Graphs 99). I wrote it in TI-Forth. It ran from a floppy. Fun times. -Original Message- 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

RE: Funny flashback Friday memory

2017-07-11 Thread John Weller
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

Re: Funny flashback Friday memory

2017-07-11 Thread Alan Bourke
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

RE: Funny flashback Friday memory

2017-07-11 Thread Jerry Wolper
> 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

RE: Funny flashback Friday memory

2017-07-10 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
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

RE: Funny flashback Friday memory

2017-07-10 Thread Paul H. Tarver
: 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

Re: Funny flashback Friday memory

2017-07-10 Thread Stephen Russell
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, <

Re: Funny flashback Friday memory

2017-07-10 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
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

Re: Funny flashback Friday memory

2017-07-10 Thread Stephen Russell
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: > >>

RE: Funny flashback Friday memory

2017-07-10 Thread Dave Crozier
-Original Message- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com Sent: 10 July 2017 16:11 To: ProFox Email List <profox@leafe.com> Subject: Re: Funny flashback Friday memory On 2017-07-10 04:29, Alan Bourke wrote: >> <m

Re: Funny flashback Friday memory

2017-07-10 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
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

Re: Funny flashback Friday memory

2017-07-10 Thread Alan Bourke
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

Re: Funny flashback Friday memory

2017-07-10 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
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

Re: Funny flashback Friday memory

2017-07-10 Thread Alan Bourke
> > 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

Re: Funny flashback Friday memory

2017-07-07 Thread Stephen Russell
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 >

Funny flashback Friday memory

2017-07-07 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
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 ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: