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tqh on Nov 25, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Half an operating system: The triumph and tragedy ...

256KB Rom, 512KB Ram. This was a time when harddrives was at ~ 40 MB, 512MB ram was unheard of.

pjmlp on Nov 25, 2013 [–]

Yes 512 KB sorry, I wanted to "fix" your 256 remark, ended up mistyping MB instead of KB. My first computer used tapes.

You also needed to load the Workbench and related libraries from floppy, so ROM firmware alone wasn't enough.

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