"Ahem A Rivet's Shot"  wrote in message
news:20201024121940.637fbc604370d7cfa1860012@eircom.net...
> On Sat, 24 Oct 2020 10:39:35 -0000 (UTC)
> Markus Robert Kessler  wrote:
>
>> We are talking about a "Raspberry A" with 256 MB (MegaByte). Under load
>> this amount will be eaten up soon. That was one of the reasons for
>> inventing repeated reboots.
>
> Reboots to cure memory leaks ? IOW reboots as a workaround for bad
> programming! That has never been acceptable in my book since times when
> 256Mb was a dream as disc capacity.

256 Mb. So 64 MB? That's luxury!

I can remember when I bought my first computer, in 1981, a CPM/3-based
"Wren" (*). I decided that I could just about afford the RAM upgrade from 16
KB to 256 KB, but I couldn't justify or afford the disk upgrade from 2
floppies to 1 floppy and a 5 MB hard disk.

My first IBM-compatible PC, based on an 8086, came with a 20 MB HDD. It ran
MS-DOS fine, but it wasn't up to running Windows 1 - and I used up most of
the HDD even installing it from the multitude of diskettes that I borrowed
from work to try it out of curiosity.


(*) I remember it was the first time I'd even driven in London, in the car
that I'd bought a few weeks earlier after passing my test - navigating along
the A40, Marylebone Road/Euston Road, Gray's Inn Road to Theobalds Road
where the shop was. I even managed to find my way back home again ;-) The
Wren still worked until I last tried it a few years ago, when I found that
the PSU (a very obsolete design) had finally packed up.

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