Once upon a time …… Or at least 20+ years ago my friend Johan and I struggled with the delightful dilemma of having to much RAM in our shared computer. Johan, which at the time worked for IBM could by a blazingly fast IBM PS/2 50z at about 50% off the market price. If I [...]
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Memory Lane: Too much RAM!
Posted in MemoryLane, tagged MemoryLane on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Memory Lane: Sorting many records using tape drives
Posted in General, tagged MemoryLane on June 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A lot of you who have studied Computer Science have been confronted with sorting problems. They are good computer class assignments, implementing bubble sort and other sorting algorithms.
The problem we discussed about sorting when I studied Computer Sciense in1986 was of a of another kind. The problem was how to most efficently sort many [...]
Memory Lane
Posted in MemoryLane, tagged MemoryLane on June 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Had an idea to write a couple of blogg posts on stuff from memory lane. I’ve been working professionally with computers since 1987 and using them for fun even longer. It has happened so much in the field of computers these 20-30 years, and it feels that the pace is increasing even more.
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