Re: What's up with Linux C/C++ programming?

[Bob Pendleton <bobp@pendleton.com>]

Robert S Whitlock wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:11:14 -0600 Bob Pendleton <bobp@pendleton.com>
> writes:
> > Actually... I first ran Windows 95 on a 40Mhz (AMD) 386 with 4mb of
> > ram.
> > it ran pretty well.
> 
> You have got to be kidding. What is "pretty well"?

(-: fair question! :-) It ran pretty well for a 386 running Windows!

You have to remember that what we would consider to be absolutely
horrible now would have been considered as pretty good back then. I
remember how much faster the 40 mHz 386 was than my old 10 Mhz 286 (with
1 meg of RAM) which was so much faster than my 4 mhz z8080 (with 64K of
ram and a 5 megabyte hard drive) which was much nicer than my 2 mhz 8080
(with 16K of RAM and a cassette tape drive) ...

Each generation seemed like heaven compared to the one before that. Now
I'm feeling old... I was in college when the price of a pdp 8 dropped to
$50,000 and I realized that some day, if I was lucky, I might be able to
own my own computer. The first "real" computer I ever wrote a line of
code for was a Univac 1108. It had a couple of hundred megabytes of DRUM
(not disk) storage and roughly 1 megabyte of RAM. It executed about 1
million instructions per second and cost $2.5 million dollars. And I got
paid to write games on it.

			Bob P.

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