On 30.06.2008 14:07, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused Ron Hunter to
generate the following:? :
> squaredancer wrote:
>
>> On 30.06.2008 03:20, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused Ken Whiton to
>> generate the following:? :
>>
>>> *-* On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, at 22:11:30 +0200,
>>> *-* In Article 2pudnWpryojvcfrVnZ2dnUVZ_h_inZ2d@mozilla.org,
>>> *-* squaredancer wrote
>>> *-* About Re: Firefox 3 still hogs memory
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 29.06.2008 05:38, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused Ken Whiton to
>>>> generate the following:? :
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> *-* Daniel wrote
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>> [ ... ]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>> Back in the days of 640kbytes of RAM, I could see why you might
>>>>>> allocate heaps of HD as a swapfile, but when you've got 100's of
>>>>>> MB or even GBytes of RAM, why should you then need to allocate any
>>>>>> of your HD??
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Two reasons: multitasking and software bloat. Back in the
>>>>> days of 640 KB neither the CPUs nor the OSs were capable of much
>>>>> (if any) multitasking, so there was little or no need for swapping.
>>>>> Furthermore, back in the days before HDs were available in PCs
>>>>> programs had to be able to fit on a 360 KB (or even a 180 KB)
>>>>> floppy, so programmers had to write tight, efficient code. Compare
>>>>> that with the size and complexity of (most of) today's programs,
>>>>> which, by virtue of that size and complexity require much more RAM
>>>>> to operate in.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Ho, Ken - you also remember the 8" days of single and double-sided
>>>> floppies?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> No.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> those were the days when a floppy really *WAS* a floppy
>>>> (and don't get your sticky fingers on the read-slot)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Actually, I don't even have any experience with the 180 KB
>>> floppies. The first PCs we had where I worked had 360 KB 5 1/4"
>>> floppies, and my first home PC had dual 720 KB 3 1/2" floppies (and no
>>> HD).
>>>
>>> Ken Whiton
>>>
>>> FIDO: 1:132/152
>>> InterNet: kenwhiton@surfglobal.net.INVAL (remove the obvious to reply)
>>>
>>>
>> the company I worked for got their first "PC" from Tektronix - a 4052
>> main (with a massive 32KB RAM), 4662 grapic plotter and two 4097 8"
>> floppy drives. The "printer" was an eletrical typewriter with an amazing
>> 32 characters/min... wow!
>> That was back in 1979-1980 or so, and the system was replaced by
>> IBM-machines (also soon replaced with Comodore PET 128 systems)
>>
>> reg
>>
>>
>>
> A printer with 32cpM? My niece types at 140 wpm, and that would be
> 700cpM. Should have hired HER. Grin.
>

cor - does she have dual quad-cpu's installed??

reg