On 4/9/2013 11:53 PM, Daniel Braniss wrote:
this host can run x11 apps! so 'Huge' is a relative matter, my first
PDP11/45 has 64K :-) danny
Bah. Real old farts ran munix on a 32k PDP 11/03- shell and apps in the
low 16k and the kernel in the upper. Or was it the other way around? At
Tektronix, a PDP 11/70 supported 64 users runing vi and compiling
simultaneously, although starting a link job meant going out for coffee.
As a point of comparison with huge and speed: in 1987 my Sun 3/50 with a
15MHz 68020 and 4MB of memory could open the mailtool and I could be
reading email within a second.
My current desktop with 8GB of memory and running 8 cores @ 2.2GHz and
Thunderbird running almost entirely memory before being un-iconified
still takes a couple of seconds to be usable.
Progress!
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