I felt old when I realized that someone had put my first "big boy" unix computer, a decstation 3100 with 24 mb of ram, onto a business card.
I felt old when I realized that someone had put my first "big boy" unix computer, a decstation 3100 with 24 mb of ram, onto a business card.
People used to joke that EMACS was an acronym for "Eight Megs and Constantly Swapping", just to give you an idea of how constrained memory was in those days.
Even the computers we think about as the first "PCs", the IBM 5150, shipped with 16 or 64kb of main memory. They were much closer to machines like the Apple II or the Commodore 64 than most people realize.