[net.micro] Memory size and the PDP-8

seifert@ihuxl.UUCP (D.A. Seifert) (10/05/84)

> No, I skipped that generation. But in MY "good ol' days" an 8K-word PDP-8
> (12K byte-equivalent) comfortably ran TECO (an editor), TED (a screen editor
> written in TECO), and even *gasp* FORTRAN (both the compiler and user programs).

hey! _R_E_A_L PDP-8s only had 4k-words, and ran FOCAL (FOrmula CALculator),
a nice little interactive language.  If your program was too big,
you could throw away the trig functions!  How do you run a screen editor
on an asr33 teletype?  Storing your programs was no problem, just roll up
the paper tape and pop it in a 35mm film can.  Those were the days....
-- 
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	_____		wearing sunglasses"
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gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) (10/14/84)

That's nothing; I used to solve real problems by thinking about them.
That was before computers made thought unnecessary, of course.  :-)