[gameprogrammer] Re: General Purpose Double Linked List Class



Yeah, me too. I try to keep it in perspective though, there were
multiuser multitasking operating systems on the IBM 7000 series machines
in the 1950s and those machines weren't that much compared to an 8088. I
The first real computer that I got to use was a UNIVAC 1108. It was
considered to be a super computer in its day. It ran at basically 1 MHz,
had a little more than 1 megabyte of RAM, and a few hundred megabytes of
magnetic drum memory. In other words, it was about the same class as a
modern digital watch... But, it had multiple processors and ran a
multitasking multiuser operating system. It cost over $2.5 million USD
new. And my first programming job was writing and porting games to run
on that system. :-)

Isn't Moore's law wonderful?

Bob Pendleton

Maybe this is against list etiquette but how old are you Bob?

Chris

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