On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Virgil Stokes <v...@it.uu.se> wrote: > On 24-Oct-2012 00:57, Demian Brecht wrote: >>> >>> This is a classic example of why the old external processing algorithms >>> of the 1960s and 70s will never be obsolete. No matter how much memory >>> you have, there will always be times when you want to process more data >>> than you can fit into memory. >> >> >> But surely nobody will *ever* need more than 640k… >> >> Right? >> >> Demian Brecht >> @demianbrecht >> http://demianbrecht.github.com >> >> >> >> > Yes, I can still remember such quotes --- thanks for jogging my memory, > Demian :-)
This is only on equipment designed by others, otherwise, you could engineer the hardware yourself to perfom just certain functions for you(RISC), and pass that back to the CISC(from a PCB design). -- Best Regards, David Hutto CEO: http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list