Neil Rickert wrote:
>>> >The person to whom I was responding seemed to think that different
> >architectures would allow different types of computation. That isn't
> >true.
>> Of course it is true. I can do all kinds of things on my pentium
> with 32 Meg of memory and 4G of disk space that were impossible on
> the Z80 system I owned in 1980 (with 64K of memory and two 100K
> floppy drives).
>
God I loved my Kapro II. I could almost sit down and right the
bios from heart. Of course, at a mighty 2 K of bios and a
mighty 5 K of operating system that was within the
realm of possiblity. What really blew me away was the fact that
its stark simplicity actually made it operate faster at 2 megs
than an XT (12 megs, I think) with a hard drive. Am I the only
person who thinks an ounce of simplicity is worth a pound of
versitility? Nope. I was quite surprised to learn that Arthur
C. Clark was still using his II well into the IBM p. c. era.
Gosh! Does this mean I'm almost as smart as him?
--
Phil Roberts, Jr.
Feelings of Worthlessness and So-Called Cognitive Science
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5476
