From: jonklipp AT freenet DOT edmonton DOT ab DOT ca ()
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Timeline of RAM
Date: 9 Mar 1997 02:35:43 GMT
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Paul Derbyshire (ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA) wrote:

: 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!"

Actually, he was quoted as saying "640k is all the RAM you'll ever need" I
believe.

: 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)

by the way, what does this have to do with djgpp?

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