From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Timeline of RAM
Date: 7 Mar 1997 07:59:03 GMT
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1940's ... Punched cards
1950's ... Drums, core
1960's ... RAM
1982   ... 3K RAM, 512 bytes video, 10K tapes (VIC 20)
1986   ... 64K RAM, up to 8K video, 720K disks (C-64)
                   Some guy now oft-qouted: "64K is all the RAM you'll
                                             ever need!"
1988   ... 512K RAM, up to 128K video (Amiga)         >64K video
1990   ... 1M RAM, 256K video
1992   ... 2M RAM, 256K video, 1.44M disks, 20M HD (PC with VGA)
1994   ... 4M RAM, 512K video, 100M HD (Super VGA 386)
1995   ... 8M RAM, 1 meg video, 8K(?) cache, 2-400M HD, 2M floppies,
           600M CD-ROM, 2-20M removable-media (syquest etc.) (486)
1996   ... 16M RAM, 2 meg video, 16K cache, 1G HD (Pentium)
1997   ... 32M RAM, 2-4 meg video, 256K cache 4G HD(PPro)      >64K cache!

(2M floppies and drives to read em still not common)

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Paul Derbyshire ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca, http://chat.carleton.ca/~pderbysh