OT - Memory usage in days of yore

[Georg Wrede]

Oh dear, we live in the past.

By the time we go out of scope, you'll be at your top, all of a sudden 
encircled by a hord of those whose have not yet even come to scope. And 
you will find yourself telling war stories from the time computers had 
less than 8TB of RAM.

Saaa wrote:
> Where the hell do you people live?
> My old computer had 1gigabyte of ram.
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>>> I used to work with a device that had
>>> 256 bytes of RAM and 8K of code space.  When working on that device, I
>>> learned how important it was to split common functionality into 
>>>functions.
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>>Pah! My ZX80 had *one K* of RAM. And three quarters of that was used
>>for the display!
>>(and you could still play Space Invaders on it).
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>>Young people today! :-) 
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