On 6/15/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:43:15 -0700, "George Herbert" george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
Live in 1680 characters gets challenging, but it was amazing how much we could do with it...
Back in the day I worked on a program to control asphalt manufacturing plant in four banks of 128k RAM. It could make a ton of asphalt at 150 C every seven seconds, and the controller was pretty accurate.
Nowadays that much RAM won't run a word processor.
Heh. Very different problem from condensed text writing exercises, but I've been there... I wrote a video game for the 2k base memory on a TS1000.