[vcf-midatlantic] Happy Birthday IBM-PC
Ethan Dicks
ethan.dicks at gmail.com
Fri Aug 13 19:24:48 UTC 2021
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 4:27 PM madodel via vcf-midatlantic
<vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> I don't think anyone had GB of anything back in the 80's. I remember back
> then when our IBM mainframe was upgraded to 1mb of core memory and that was
> serving 3 hospitals with 100's of terminals.
When I first started working at Software Results in the Fall of 1984,
me and one of the other student workers were marveling at the
32-bitness of the VAX-11/750 (with 8MB of physical RAM in a 4GB
virtual address space) and trying to envision how expensive and how
large *Four Gigabytes* of RAM would be, and it was *immense*.
This same machine (8MB RAM) could handle 70 dumb terminal users, but
to be fair, it did swap a bit over 40 users. The two fattest apps we
had were were VMS MAIL and MASS-11 (word processing).
-ethan
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