21 Jun
2018
21 Jun
'18
8:09 p.m.
On 6/19/18, Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
In other words, there's a reason they were all dropped like hot potatoes in
favour of core - which, looked at from our DRAM-era perspective, seems
quaintly dinosaurian. Individual pieces of hardware you can actually _see_
with the naked eye, for _each_ bit? But that should give some idea of how
much
worse everything before it was, that it killed them all off so quickly!
When we replaced our S/360 model 25 with a S/370 model 125, I remember
being shocked when I found out that the semiconductor memory on the
125 was volatile. You mean we're going to have to reload the OS every
time we power the machine off? Yuck!!
-Paul W.