Definition confirmation (please read)...

From: Roger Goswick <ccfsm_at_ipa.net>
Date: Thu Jul 29 08:45:05 1999

  True. that does not sound like much - but back in 1973 when I took
my first programming courses the text book defined the boundary
between mini and mainframe by concluding that a real mainframe had
to have at least 16-K of core. And if I remember correctly, our huge
IBM 360/195 had a whole megabyte of ram!! GUI's have sure messed
that up - eh?

roger Goswick



-----Original Message-----
From: CLASSICCMP-owner_at_u.washington.edu
[mailto:CLASSICCMP-owner_at_u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of John Foust
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 8:36 AM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Re: Definition confirmation (please read)...


At 05:44 AM 8/5/99 -0400, Ward Griffiths wrote:
>
>Of course, back in those days in the early 80s, Gibson had never
>touched a computer and knew nothing about how they worked, let
>alone communications and networking.

Yes, I seem to remember a passage in one of Gibson's books where
a computer-based AI resided in two megabytes of ROM. Now that's
compact coding!

- Jo
Received on Thu Jul 29 1999 - 08:45:05 BST