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Re: Int64 File Seeking ???

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On 2/23/23 12:11 AM, Robert Riches wrote:
> On 2023-02-23, 25B.E866 <25B.E866@noaaba.net> wrote:
>> On 2/22/23 8:38 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> On 22/02/2023 08:55, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>>> you have a couple of options, but the
>>>> sensible one is: bin it and get a computer that hasn’t been obsolete for
>>>> the last 15 years.
>>>
>>> LOL. Is it THAT long ago?
>>
>>     Even longer really ... more like 20 years.
> 
> Well, not quite that long, unless you were into high-end
> hardware.
> 
> 23 years ago, a 64-bit machine would have been something like a
> US$8k Alpha UP2000 machine.


   But the Cutting-Edgers/Gamers DID pay ...... often, I
   suspect, for the same reasons involved in having THE
   Latest i-Phone (and preferably taking a selfie out in
   front of the Apple store) - BRAGGING RIGHTS.

   We tend to denigrate the Gamers - but they, and their $$$,
   tend to push along and lower the prices of the hardware.

   I *do* remember when the 386 was billed as "aimed-at/
   only-needed for high-end servers" ..... a year later
   they were cheap and everywhere, mostly because of the
   Gamers. My boss was impressed when I told him they
   could do over One-MIPs ... felt he'd entered
   SuperComputerLand  :-) Then I went down to an
   electronics-repair place we used and got some
   new crystals and made it 1.5 MIPs (with homebrew
   heatsinks made from Pepsi cans ... )


> 20 years ago plus or minus a month or so, the Alpha machine
> developed a hardware problem with the motherboard, and the board
> needed to be shipped back east for repairs (came back with a few
> blue wires and a new chip or two).  Its "temporary" replacement
> was a machine with a $150-180 Pentium 4A, which was definitely
> _NOT_ 64-bit.  (I was on the design team, so I would have known.)
> 
> I don't remember exactly when, but it was at least a few years
> after that that a consumer-grade 64-bit machine became available.

   The Core2 derivatives were, as I remember, the first
   really affordable 64-bitters worth having. Still have
   a Core2-Quad that's STILL doing some useful work - running
   Bullseye-64 at this point. Those chips were surprisingly
   spry and would still run 8-bit code - even native CP/M-86.

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Int64 File Seeking ??? "25B.E866" <25B.E866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-22 01:52 -0500
  Re: Int64 File Seeking ??? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-22 08:55 +0000
    Re: Int64 File Seeking ??? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-22 13:38 +0000
      Re: Int64 File Seeking ??? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-22 14:11 +0000
        Re: Int64 File Seeking ??? "25B.E866" <25B.E866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-22 20:38 -0500
      Re: Int64 File Seeking ??? "25B.E866" <25B.E866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-22 23:53 -0500
        Re: Int64 File Seeking ??? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2023-02-23 05:11 +0000
          Re: Int64 File Seeking ??? Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2023-02-22 21:29 -0800
          Re: Int64 File Seeking ??? "25B.E866" <25B.E866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-23 00:49 -0500
            Re: Int64 File Seeking ??? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-24 13:13 +0000
              Re: Int64 File Seeking ??? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-24 14:58 +0000
              Re: Int64 File Seeking ??? Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2023-02-24 15:13 +0000
                Re: Int64 File Seeking ??? "25A.I866" <25A.I866@noacba.net> - 2023-02-26 00:05 -0500
              Re: Int64 File Seeking ??? "25A.I866" <25A.I866@noacba.net> - 2023-02-25 23:58 -0500
    Re: Int64 File Seeking ??? "25B.E866" <25B.E866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-22 10:14 -0500
      Re: Int64 File Seeking ??? Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2023-02-22 08:52 -0800
        Re: Int64 File Seeking ??? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-22 16:55 +0000
        Re: Int64 File Seeking ??? Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2023-02-22 12:36 -0800
  Re: Int64 File Seeking ??? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-24 20:50 +0100

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