From: Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>
To: Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] core
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 10:09:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABH=_VTNYg=6qr=B+yAkEJghQ4AZm7RNZm4UWDFS==q+WBByDQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180619122359.1525D18C084@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
On 6/19/18, Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> In other words, there's a reason they were all dropped like hot potatoes in
> favour of core - which, looked at from our DRAM-era perspective, seems
> quaintly dinosaurian. Individual pieces of hardware you can actually _see_
> with the naked eye, for _each_ bit? But that should give some idea of how
> much
> worse everything before it was, that it killed them all off so quickly!
When we replaced our S/360 model 25 with a S/370 model 125, I remember
being shocked when I found out that the semiconductor memory on the
125 was volatile. You mean we're going to have to reload the OS every
time we power the machine off? Yuck!!
-Paul W.
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Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-19 12:23 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-19 12:58 ` Clem Cole
2018-06-19 13:53 ` John P. Linderman
2018-06-21 14:09 ` Paul Winalski [this message]
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2018-06-21 23:38 ` Toby Thain
2018-06-21 17:40 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-21 17:07 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-06-21 13:46 Doug McIlroy
2018-06-21 16:13 ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-20 20:11 Doug McIlroy
2018-06-20 23:53 ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-19 11:50 Doug McIlroy
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2018-06-18 21:13 ` Johnny Billquist
2018-06-18 17:56 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-18 18:51 ` Clem Cole
2018-06-18 14:51 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-18 14:58 ` Warner Losh
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2018-06-18 5:58 ` Johnny Billquist
2018-06-18 12:39 ` Ronald Natalie
2018-06-17 21:18 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-17 17:58 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-18 9:16 ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-18 15:33 ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-17 14:36 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-17 15:58 ` Derek Fawcus
2018-06-16 22:57 Noel Chiappa
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2018-06-16 22:14 ` Johnny Billquist
2018-06-16 22:38 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-06-17 0:15 ` Clem cole
2018-06-17 1:50 ` Johnny Billquist
2018-06-17 10:33 ` Ronald Natalie
2018-06-20 16:55 ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-20 21:35 ` Johnny Billquist
2018-06-20 22:24 ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-16 13:49 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-16 14:10 ` Clem Cole
2018-06-16 14:34 ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-06-16 15:28 ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-16 14:10 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-06-16 14:13 ` William Pechter
2018-06-16 13:37 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-16 18:59 ` Clem Cole
2018-06-17 12:15 ` Derek Fawcus
2018-06-17 17:33 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-06-17 19:50 ` Jon Forrest
2018-06-18 14:56 ` Clem Cole
2018-06-18 12:36 ` Tony Finch
2018-06-16 12:58 Doug McIlroy
2018-06-20 11:10 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-06-16 12:51 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-16 13:11 ` Clem cole
2018-06-15 15:25 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-15 23:05 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-06-15 23:22 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-06-16 6:36 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-06-16 19:07 ` Clem Cole
2018-06-18 9:25 ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-19 20:45 ` Peter Jeremy
2018-06-19 22:55 ` David Arnold
2018-06-20 5:04 ` Peter Jeremy
2018-06-20 5:41 ` Warner Losh
2018-06-15 11:19 A. P. Garcia
2018-06-15 13:50 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-06-15 14:21 ` Clem Cole
2018-06-15 15:11 ` John P. Linderman
2018-06-15 15:21 ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-16 1:08 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-06-16 2:00 ` Nemo Nusquam
2018-06-16 2:17 ` John P. Linderman
2018-06-16 3:06 ` Clem cole
2018-06-20 10:06 ` Dave Horsfall
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