[Gllug] 64bit computing

John Winters john at sinodun.org.uk
Sat Sep 5 07:45:58 UTC 2009


Alain Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 08:02:26PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> 
>> But seriously does anyone remember the whole issue of Byte magazine
>> (circa 1990/1991??) which was given over the 64 bit computing.  One
>> thing I recall they stated 1 gigabyte of RAM could nearly fit into a
>> 1 ft x 1 ft x 1 ft cube.
> 
> In my first real job we had 2 ICL System 4 machines, each had a huge 1MB RAM.

1 MB!?  You were lucky.  In my day *(&^(*%(&^%
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