[GNC] Database storage

[Fred Bone]

On 19 September 2024 at 12:31, Michael or Penny Novack said:

> On 9/19/2024 11:16 AM, Roberts K wrote:
> > In my experience the amount of data is relatively small (even for
> > thousands of records)
> 
> A bit of historical perspective is needed, particularly because our 
> heads have not yet absorbed a fundamental change in technology.
> 
> Back in my working days, the IBM 3350's (hard drives) held somewhat over
> 300 mbytes each and our programs on the mainframe had about 10 mbytes core
> (the OS took about 6 mbytes from every program's virtual space.

<yorkshiremen count="four">
Oooh, luxury. We 'ad 2311s that gave you 7 whole megabytes. We useter 
DREAM of having 2314s (28 Mb). 
</yorkshiremen>

But you'd still never have got a whole disk worth of data into the (64k) 
mainframe memory.