From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) Subject: Re: NT vs Linux (was: Re: truth or dare) Date: 9 Jul 1993 16:02:46 GMT
> Does anyone out there remember the kinds of things that used to be
> accomplished back in the days of the Commodore 64, Apple ][, etc?
> Remember when we only had 64K in the whole machine? Remember when
> a processor ran at a whopping 1MHz? Anyone remember 88K floppies?
You had it lucky, mate. When I were a lad, we had to make do with a
ZX81 with 1K of ram shared between the (barely) operating system,
video buffer and applications - and you could run Chess on it. Now
*that* is an achievement.
Cheers,
Stephen.