[Gllug] 64bit computing

[Alain Williams]

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.
This came in 256KB modules each of which was a cube of side 3 foot.
Core memory.

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