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On 4/9/2013 11:53 PM, Daniel Braniss wrote:
> this host can run x11 apps! so 'Huge' is a relative matter, my first 
> PDP11/45 has 64K :-) danny
Bah. Real old farts ran munix on a 32k PDP 11/03- shell and apps in the 
low 16k and the kernel in the upper. Or was it the other way around? At 
Tektronix, a PDP 11/70 supported 64 users runing vi and compiling 
simultaneously, although starting a link job meant going out for coffee.

As a point of comparison with huge and speed: in 1987 my Sun 3/50 with a 
15MHz 68020 and 4MB of memory could open the mailtool and I could be 
reading email within a second.

My current desktop with 8GB of memory and running 8 cores @ 2.2GHz and 
Thunderbird running almost entirely memory before being un-iconified 
still takes a couple of seconds to be usable.

Progress!