[ih] Historical fiction

Craig Milo Rogers rogers at isi.edu
Fri May 11 13:37:54 PDT 2012


On 12.05.11, John Day wrote:
> No, just the one.  Braden was the contact person.  We were doing a lot of 
> RJE to it.
>
> We were all amazed that it had 2MB of memory and thought it scandalous that 
> the OS took up half of it.  ;-)

	4MB, at least by 1971.  Perhaps it had less when first installed?

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0090

	Note that CCN ran up to 4 different timesharing systems simultaneously
as well as 2 or 3 different batch processors, all running under MVT.  Perhaps
it is not surprising that so much memory was pinned.

					Craig Milo Rogers



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