From: calica@cae.wisc.edu (Carlo James Calica) Subject: Re: NT vs Linux (was: Re: truth or dare) Date: 9 Jul 1993 10:56:11 CDT
In article <SCT.93Jul9160246@ascrib.dcs.ed.ac.uk> sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) writes:
>
>> 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.
>
Oh no here we go.... Well I remember the days before punch cards where you
had to program your computer with switches. Ahh those were the days. :-)
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