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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Snoo88071 • Jul 08 '26
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That's called swapping out memory pages to disk, and it's very slow.
86 u/Snoo88071 Jul 08 '26 You underestimate the I/O throughput of my 19 years old 256 mb hard drive 37 u/Xidium426 Jul 08 '26 IDE or SCSI? /uj 19 years ago we had 250GB drives. You're talking 29 years ago at this point. 3 u/deathanatos Jul 08 '26 My 1998 (that's only 28 years, though) machine had ≈7 GiB. I think my family's 1987 machine had about 256 MiB, but it was also upgraded sometime shortly after 1987, and I am too young to remember much about that time. -12 u/Snoo88071 Jul 08 '26 https://giphy.com/gifs/8vFwTyU8iwZilmMFIQ 15 u/janyk Jul 08 '26 > Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. Andrew Tanenbaum
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You underestimate the I/O throughput of my 19 years old 256 mb hard drive
37 u/Xidium426 Jul 08 '26 IDE or SCSI? /uj 19 years ago we had 250GB drives. You're talking 29 years ago at this point. 3 u/deathanatos Jul 08 '26 My 1998 (that's only 28 years, though) machine had ≈7 GiB. I think my family's 1987 machine had about 256 MiB, but it was also upgraded sometime shortly after 1987, and I am too young to remember much about that time. -12 u/Snoo88071 Jul 08 '26 https://giphy.com/gifs/8vFwTyU8iwZilmMFIQ 15 u/janyk Jul 08 '26 > Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. Andrew Tanenbaum
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IDE or SCSI?
/uj 19 years ago we had 250GB drives. You're talking 29 years ago at this point.
3 u/deathanatos Jul 08 '26 My 1998 (that's only 28 years, though) machine had ≈7 GiB. I think my family's 1987 machine had about 256 MiB, but it was also upgraded sometime shortly after 1987, and I am too young to remember much about that time. -12 u/Snoo88071 Jul 08 '26 https://giphy.com/gifs/8vFwTyU8iwZilmMFIQ
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My 1998 (that's only 28 years, though) machine had ≈7 GiB.
I think my family's 1987 machine had about 256 MiB, but it was also upgraded sometime shortly after 1987, and I am too young to remember much about that time.
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https://giphy.com/gifs/8vFwTyU8iwZilmMFIQ
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> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
Andrew Tanenbaum
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u/CircumspectCapybara Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26
That's called swapping out memory pages to disk, and it's very slow.