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you ever write code so inefficient you have to secure 80% of the world’s DRAM production
cliffordheath@colinstu Running Unix on a PDP/11 in 1981, we had to upgrade the memory from 96kB to 256kB to support three users. That's kilobytes, not gigabytes. Queensland University had a 16 port terminal device with students on the same hardware
@colinstu I was able to compile C code, play Pacman (fullscreen TUI), or run database code while other users used a sonic digitiser to trace radiographs on an interactive vector graphics screen (Tektronix storage tube), and a plotter made colour drawings or uploaded data files to the supercomputer. Real-time applications...