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bannie
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| Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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I remember when 256 MB of RAM was bleeding edge
I feel old at 21 :roll: |
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ExarKun
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bannie wrote: I remember when 256 MB of RAM was bleeding edge
I feel old at 21 :roll:
Dude I remember my first video card being a 8mb card. Now I have a 1 DB DDR5 card and some of my friends are telling me it still not enough... which I beg to differ but whole other story. |
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bannie
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| Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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| I can't wait till Joe or Brf show up and start sprouting numbers that end in kb |
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Batchman
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 12:05 am Post subject: |
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I remember my Atari 2600, which had to make due with just 2kb of memory.
But back in the day, we had to feed punch cards in to make the computers work.
66,317 cards just to produce "Hello, world!" |
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JuntaJoe
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:09 am Post subject: |
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Early pc attempts effectively had no storage memory built in.
Storage media was big honking magnetic tape drives and naturally unsuitable for something "portable".
Otherwise you kept storage on some kind of hard copy like cards and fed it to the machine. The pc back then was really just a processor and display as it contained no databases internally.
With the advent of internal storage you could then add a true operating system that managed the processor instead of physically telling it which operation computation to run. |
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ExarKun
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 7:59 am Post subject: |
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| I had the atari too. hell I have vague memories of pong. Punch cards on the other hand I never got to deal with. |
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Batchman
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Neither did I ... I was just being facetious.
I'm hoping that it wouldn't take 67,000+ cards to say "Hello world." |
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ExarKun
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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| "hello world" was my first semester of C++ final. |
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bannie
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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ExarKun wrote: "hello world" was my first semester of C++ final.
Really? That was my first assignment in computer science |
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ExarKun
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:03 am Post subject: |
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bannie wrote: ExarKun wrote: "hello world" was my first semester of C++ final.
Really? That was my first assignment in computer science
yeah my proffesor had just lost his son a few months before this, I don't think he really wanted to bother with thinking of something to give us a final on. |
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ExarKun
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bannie wrote: ExarKun wrote: "hello world" was my first semester of C++ final.
Really? That was my first assignment in computer science
yeah my proffesor had just lost his son a few months before this, I don't think he really wanted to bother with thinking of something to give us a final on. |
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