OT - Memory usage in days of yore

[Georg Wrede]

Saaa wrote:
>>>I'd rather see a pissing contest then erm.. well.. a crapping contest.
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>>I really don't understand the relevance of that statement. It seems a
>>bit rude to me. Is this some internet jargon with which I am
>>unfamiliar? Maybe like trolling or flaming or something? I sense no
>>ill will in this thread.
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> You seriously don't see the relevance?
> I see you and others being cool about having less.
> Only the post from Georg Wrede was interesting.

:-) Gee, thanks!

> I'd rather see what kind of new technologies people currenly have.
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>>And there is a positive side to it. Though we were being nostalgic, in
>>passing we were also pointing out how /much/ it's possible to do with
>>only small amounts of memory. Modern compilers, for all their
>>optimisation techniques, could still learn a lot from what the human
>>brain was doing in the early eighties.
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> Personally I think that is an extremely obvious observation. But then
> again, my work is in artificial intelligence. 
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