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From: Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Java processors
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2012 10:58:45 -0400
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On 7/7/2012 10:42 AM, BGB wrote:
> On 7/6/2012 9:10 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
>> On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:17:49 -0400, Eric Sosman
>> <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
>> someone who said :
>>
>>>      "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 ..."
>>
>> Univac made a unit record handling computer with 16K.  Yet we had
>> threads in the thing and look-ahead i/o.  Someday people won't believe
>> this.  A beast like this ran the Vancouver Stock exchange.
>>
>
> give it a few years and GB will likely seem small...
>
> like, "how could you write that application using under 1GB of RAM?".
>

     640YB ought to be enough for anybody.

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid