[Tutor] Bit-level field extraction

Bob Gailer bgailer at alum.rpi.edu
Wed May 17 19:29:39 CEST 2006


S W Collier wrote:
> You chaps are making me nostalgic; days of the 8080A/Z80/F8/6800 when
> I built my first computer. In those days 2K of memory was considered 
> large for a personal computer.
>   
In 1975 Boeing Computer Services proudly announced the addition of 4 
megabytes of memory to one of its IBM Mainframes runnuig VM, at a cost 
over $100,000!

At least that reduced the spooling of virtual memory to the card 
punch/reader. ;-)

-- 
Bob Gailer
510-978-4454



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