[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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