squaredancer wrote:
> 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
>
May have been an IBM Selectric (betha didn't know I was geezer enough to
know about those.)
Or might have been like the Daisy wheel Printer I have made by
UA/Olivetti I have a whole book of Daisy wheels. I have a interface box
That connected first to my Apple IIGS Clone then I used it on my first
Mac an SE/30. It used replaceable correction tape and Film type ink
Cartridges in Black , Blue, Red, or Brown. It printed slow but the print
you received was as good as any of today's laser printers. Pica an Elie
were the popular choices (I liked Elite better) b But I bought other
such as a script like you use to make Christmas Cards with. AS I said I
have a Whole book of the daisy wheels.

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