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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:17:05 +0200
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On 24-Oct-2012 00:57, Demian Brecht wrote:
>> This is a classic example of why the old external processing algorithms
>> of the 1960s and 70s will never be obsolete. No matter how much memory
>> you have, there will always be times when you want to process more data
>> than you can fit into memory.
>
> But surely nobody will *ever* need more than 640k…
>
> Right?
>
> Demian Brecht
> @demianbrecht
> http://demianbrecht.github.com
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Yes, I can still remember such quotes --- thanks for jogging my memory, Demian :-)