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From: mha@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory INIT
Message-ID: <7239@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 22 Jan 89 03:43:15 GMT
References: <8901151644.AA17944@Portia.stanford.edu>
Reply-To: mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder)
Organization: Department of Media Services, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <8901151644.AA17944@Portia.stanford.edu> name@PORTIA.STANFORD.EDU (tony cooper) writes:
>...
>If it were possible to have, say, 16 MB of virtual memory on the Mac I guess
>most people would have trouble using it all. What would you do with all that
>much memory? I guess you could use it as a RAM disk!?!
>
>Tony Cooper

I can just imagine Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak twelve years ago reading
this through a time portal and thinking, "He means sixteen kilobytes, not
sixteen megabytes, right?"  Of course, they soon realized that a computer
really DID need at least 16K.  Soon they were selling 48K machines.  Of
course, the epitome of luxurious amounts of memory was with the 128K
Apple //e (the standard model had 64K, I think).  "They're putting *512K*
in the new version of their computer?  WHAT FOR?!"  Enter the Fat Mac.

And you're wondering what people could possibly put in 16 megabytes?  :-)


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