PM Boris
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#963
Re: PM Boris
And, just to come full circle, Boris' head is about as big as the sun compared to the galaxy.
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#966
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#970
Re: PM Boris
I do find it hard to conceive of Jupiter. That size and apparently it's all gas with very little (or no) core. Just a monster.
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#973
Re: PM Boris
Eight days to go.
And... the only possible candidate for any mention at all must be the 8 Bit microprocessor.
Whether it was the Z80 or the 6502, they formed the basis of the early home computers.
It really is difficult in these days of megabyte programs and terrabyte storage to realise that these processors could only address a maximum of 64k although on some machines some tweaks allowed this to be extended to a hair-raising 128k.
I remember programing in machine code (I was too tight to buy an assembler) on both processors and assembled a small collection of Amstrad, Commodore, Sinclair and Atari machines and other notable creations like the BBC and Apple II should not be forgotten.
Programing with these constraints encouraged efficient use of resources, something no longer required I think when I look at the bloated offerings today.
Happy days.
And... the only possible candidate for any mention at all must be the 8 Bit microprocessor.
Whether it was the Z80 or the 6502, they formed the basis of the early home computers.
It really is difficult in these days of megabyte programs and terrabyte storage to realise that these processors could only address a maximum of 64k although on some machines some tweaks allowed this to be extended to a hair-raising 128k.
I remember programing in machine code (I was too tight to buy an assembler) on both processors and assembled a small collection of Amstrad, Commodore, Sinclair and Atari machines and other notable creations like the BBC and Apple II should not be forgotten.
Programing with these constraints encouraged efficient use of resources, something no longer required I think when I look at the bloated offerings today.
Happy days.
#974
Re: PM Boris
Eight days to go.
And... the only possible candidate for any mention at all must be the 8 Bit microprocessor.
Whether it was the Z80 or the 6502, they formed the basis of the early home computers.
It really is difficult in these days of megabyte programs and terrabyte storage to realise that these processors could only address a maximum of 64k although on some machines some tweaks allowed this to be extended to a hair-raising 128k.
I remember programing in machine code (I was too tight to buy an assembler) on both processors and assembled a small collection of Amstrad, Commodore, Sinclair and Atari machines and other notable creations like the BBC and Apple II should not be forgotten.
Programing with these constraints encouraged efficient use of resources, something no longer required I think when I look at the bloated offerings today.
Happy days.
And... the only possible candidate for any mention at all must be the 8 Bit microprocessor.
Whether it was the Z80 or the 6502, they formed the basis of the early home computers.
It really is difficult in these days of megabyte programs and terrabyte storage to realise that these processors could only address a maximum of 64k although on some machines some tweaks allowed this to be extended to a hair-raising 128k.
I remember programing in machine code (I was too tight to buy an assembler) on both processors and assembled a small collection of Amstrad, Commodore, Sinclair and Atari machines and other notable creations like the BBC and Apple II should not be forgotten.
Programing with these constraints encouraged efficient use of resources, something no longer required I think when I look at the bloated offerings today.
Happy days.
#975
Re: PM Boris
I bought a new home computer while I was at work, in the 90's, and was talking about it with some others from work, I commented on the fact that it had 1gb of memory, WHATTTTTTTTTTTT was the cry,No-one needs that sort of memory, even our lab system uses only 640MB. The lab system had most equipment connected, and ran many of the machines, it also produced all the paper reports. I assume that nowadays they don't use paper reports anymore as even before I left all wards in our hospital and 5 others are on the system plus all GPs in Lincolnshire. Wasn't that long ago either, and now, well 1TB seems to be routine memory for home computers and most home computers are now laptops or tablets.