Anyone remembers Commodore PET and C64? 64MB or less of core and of course big whopping modern 3.5 inch 1.44MB floppy drives?
load "asteroid",8,1 -----Original Message----- From: Roberts K <roberts.klot...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2024 3:18 PM To: stepbystepf...@comcast.net Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Database storage Blast from the past, Yes, I do remember when 200mb hard drive was quite big harddrive to buy in the shop. I was fairly young man then :-D. But W541 is pretty sweet machine. I run linux on P70 and do not foresee the need to change it anytime soon. Roberts > Now this Lenovo work station I am sitting at is ancient. The W541's > were the last of the W series. Still, this little thing I v=can pick > up and carry around has HUNDREDS of times as much capacity as those > three 3350 hard drives and it has many gbytes of core, enough to load > into core that entire database several times. -- Dr Roberts Klotins On Thu, 19 Sept 2024 at 17:32, Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > On 9/19/2024 11:16 AM, Roberts K wrote: > > In my experience the amount of data is relatively small (even for > thousands > > of records) > > A bit of historical perspective is needed, particularly because our > heads have not yet absorbed a fundamental change in technology. > > Back in my working days, the IBM 3350's (hard drives) held somewhat > over > 300 mbytes each and our programs on the mainframe had about 10 mbytes > core (the OS took about 6 mbytes from every program's virtual space. > > So a large database might span three drives and only a tiny bit of it > at a time could fit into core. > > Now this Lenovo work station I am sitting at is ancient. The W541's > were the last of the W series. Still, this little thing I v=can pick > up and carry around has HUNDREDS of times as much capacity as those > three 3350 hard drives and it has many gbytes of core, enough to load > into core that entire database several times. > > We (NOW) load entire databases into core because we can. We didn't > before because we couldn't (and the ones that did work that way could > only handle small databases) > > Michael > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
