Gyle,
 
64KB?  ROTFLMAO! The first Microdata machine I worked on had 16KB, and  ran a 
medical billing service bureau. It had 1 50MB disk drive and ran as slow  as 
molasses. I ran into the same machine many years later in a tech college  
museum. I verified the serial number to be sure. Ouch, the bones are feeling 
old  
today.  ;^)
 
Regards,
Charlie Noah
 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])   writes:

Charles  Stevenson goes on:
[snipping the bit about tolerance]

>Do you  know why dimensioned arrays were first limited to only 1 or  2
>dimensions in Pick or Info-Basic?

There was probably some  concern about memory consumption way back when MD
and Pick ran with only  64KB of core. I think it was just simpler for the
designers to set a low  limit. It looks like the subsequent designers never
anticipated adding more  dimensions, rather they focused on backward
compatibility (which in this  case has multiple interpretations).
[snip]

Best  regards,
Gyle
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