[cctalk] Re: How much memory?

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Jun 16, 2023, at 3:40 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> On 6/16/23 12:02, ben via cctalk wrote:
> 
>> Ken , Jobs and  Wozniak need their fair share.
>> Graphics and file system buffers take up more
>> space than you expect.
> 
> I just transferred a DC150 tar tape.  Total (uncompressed) file size was
> 11MB.  What was on it?  The complete source to Linux 1.0.

Somewhat earlier, the complete source for the RSTS-11 timesharing system fit on 
5 DECtapes, 1.5 MB.  And that was assembly language, exhaustively commented.

        paul