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From Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject Re: Java processors
Date Fri, 6 Jul 2012 22:29:55 +0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:17:49 -0400, Eric Sosman wrote:

> On 7/6/2012 5:18 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:53:21 -0700, Roedy Green wrote:
>>
>>> The underlying hardware had only 24 bits addressing, but it was bit
>>> addressable. That let you address bytes with 21 bits, a mere 2
>>> megabytes.Yet that little machine pumped out transactions like you
>>> would not believe.  It used memory very cleverly dynamically balancing
>>> system,
>>> app, database, disk cache.
>>>
>> As I'm certain you know, driving 24x80 green screens allowed machines
>> to use very much less memory than today's hardware with its
>> memory-hungry high-resolution graphics. The BBC's pair of 2966s could
>> each run 10-12 online IDMSX-based systems, which together were accessed
>> by 300-400 terminals, yet each machine did all that with 16 MB of RAM.
> 
>      "MEGAbytes? Looxurry.  Moi 'ole college campus 'ad a grand
> total of 128 KILObytes,[*] an' we wuz glad to 'ave it, we wuz. But yew
> troi tellin' the kids nawadays ..."
> 
>      [*] A couple decades ago it suddenly dawned on me that my
> rather bare-bones video card had sixteen times the memory of my
> college's mainframe.  But yew troi tellin' the kids nawadays ...

I wuz IMPRESSD by awl thet MEMORY in the 2966. 

The biggest 1900 I ever used, a 1904S, had 256 Kwords of core memory 
(24bit words). The one that taught me how to tune George 3 was a 1903S 
with 32 Kwords of core memory - the equivalent of either 96 kB (counting 
bits) or 128 KB (counting characters). The 1900 packed 4 6-bit ISO 
characters into a word. 


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  Re: Java processors Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-07-05 11:28 -0400
    Re: Java processors BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-07-05 13:00 -0500
      Re: Java processors Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-07-05 14:31 -0400
        Re: Java processors BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-07-05 16:42 -0500
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          Re: Java processors Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-07-06 00:13 -0400
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                Re: Java processors Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-07-08 17:46 +0000
                Re: Java processors Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-07-08 11:52 -0700
                Re: Java processors Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-07-08 21:41 +0000
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                Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-08 19:44 -0700
                Re: Java processors Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-07-09 23:41 -0700
                Re: Java processors David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-07-16 13:22 -0400
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                Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-08 19:42 -0700
                Re: Java processors Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-07-10 01:13 +0200
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                Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-11 15:41 -0700
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                Re: Java processors Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-21 18:46 +0200
                Re: Java processors Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-07-21 13:05 -0400
                Re: Java processors Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-21 19:23 +0200
                Re: Java processors Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-07-21 14:10 -0400
                Re: Java processors Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-23 01:17 +0200
                Re: Java processors Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-07-22 20:15 -0400
                Re: Java processors Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-07-22 15:13 +0200
                Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-06 19:03 -0700
                Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-08 19:51 -0700
              Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-07 21:17 -0700
                Re: Java processors Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-07-07 23:04 -0700
                Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-08 09:29 -0700
                Re: Java processors Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-07-08 11:57 -0700
            Re: Java processors Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-08 15:40 +0200
              Re: Java processors BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-07-08 10:36 -0500
          Re: Java processors Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-07-06 11:31 -0700
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        Re: Java processors BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-07-05 16:09 -0500
        Re: Java processors Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-07-06 01:29 +0200
          Re: Java processors Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-07-06 00:42 +0000
            Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-06 13:53 -0700
              Re: Java processors Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-07-06 21:18 +0000
                Re: Java processors Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-07-06 18:17 -0400
                Re: Java processors Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-07-06 22:29 +0000
                Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-06 19:10 -0700
                Re: Java processors BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-07-07 09:42 -0500
                Re: Java processors Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-07-07 10:58 -0400
                (OT) Was: Re: Java processors Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-07-07 11:38 -0400
                Re: (OT) Was: Re: Java processors Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-07-07 21:19 -0700
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                Re: Java processors Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-07-07 21:17 -0700
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                Re: Java processors "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-07-08 11:37 +0200
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