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On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:48:00 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:

> Bloat. I started life with an IBM System.360 Model 30. 32K was a pretty
> normal system, with 24k available to users. It ran COBOL, FORTRAN, PL/I,
> and probably others of what there was back then. If Pascal existed, it
> probably would have run quite well.

Yes, that was an formidable beast. iirc it had so much RAM to perform a 
FFT you had to write partial products to tape, rewind, and take another 
pass. The experience was so rewarding that it was close to 10 years with 
the advent of microcontrollers that I became interested in programming.