From: mark@taylor.uucp (Mark A. Davis) Subject: Re: NT vs Linux (was: Re: truth or dare) Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1993 18:25:46 GMT
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.
Actually, I thought the Tandy (Radio Shack) Color Computer running a
fully multiuser, multitasking OS called OS9 was pretty amazing.... especially
with a 1 Mhz 8 bit 6890 chip and 64k RAM....
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