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CD-ROMs and only 128k of RAM? Sorry, that doesn't pass the smell test. Once CD-ROMs were available, 2-digit megabytes of RAM were standard (and affordable) for home PCs.
CD-ROMs were outselling all other audio formats in the United States by 1991 for context.
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Pretty sure the ZX Spectrum (also 128k) had some kind of CDROM adaptor, it worked via the joystick port IIRC. A quick google didn’t tell me anything so maybe I imagined it.
I think you did imagine it, yes. The Spectrum did not have 128kB until near the end of its life. It started out with a choice of 16kB or 48kB and that was all you got until 1986. It also didn't have a joystick port. Nor did it have floppy disks (although 3rd party interfaces existed). Amstrad added joystick ports when it bought the product line and brand from Sinclair Research, soon after Sinclair launched the Spectr…
I may still have imagined it.
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I think you did imagine it, yes. The Spectrum did not have 128kB until near the end of its life. It started out with a choice of 16kB or 48kB and that was all you got until 1986. It also didn't have a joystick port. Nor did it have floppy disks (although 3rd party interfaces existed). Amstrad added joystick ports when it bought the product line and brand from Sinclair Research, soon after Sinclair launched the Spectr…
Yeah, it was definitely in the Amstrad era, not the rubber keyboard. Spectrum +2 / +3 had 128k, and joystick ports. The +3 had a disk drive. I may still have imagined it.
But it's not really a CDROM.
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Bold. In a different timeline they could have been the nvidia.
Absolutely: https://www.transputer.net/tn/46/tn46.html Too bad the UK gov were so shortsighted, or that Atari, instead of making the ATW ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Transputer_Workstation ) should have simply used a T212 in the ST blitter socket as a coprocessor. That way people could have slowly gotten familiar with the arch :| People are building new hardware to run transputers though: https://forums.atar…
CD-ROMs and only 128k of RAM? Sorry, that doesn't pass the smell test. Once CD-ROMs were available, 2-digit megabytes of RAM were standard (and affordable) for home PCs.
I realized just this month I miss the days of being able to crash my computer completely with a typo. Such a weird feeling. I was debugging some pcie passthrough issues this week and the feeling that the computer could go dark whenever I started the VM was fantastic. It took sooooo much time, and I loved it. Of course, I hated it at the same time. But I got the same feeling as when I was writing ring0 code at 14. Thi…
Sometimes the value would wind up in the basic program itself and it would stop. Mostly it just locked up and I had to hit the power button and try again.
CD-ROMs and only 128k of RAM? Sorry, that doesn't pass the smell test. Once CD-ROMs were available, 2-digit megabytes of RAM were standard (and affordable) for home PCs.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bold. In a different timeline they could have been the nvidia.
Absolutely: https://www.transputer.net/tn/46/tn46.html Too bad the UK gov were so shortsighted, or that Atari, instead of making the ATW ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Transputer_Workstation ) should have simply used a T212 in the ST blitter socket as a coprocessor. That way people could have slowly gotten familiar with the arch :| People are building new hardware to run transputers though: https://forums.atar…
The target is the embedded space now, though.
This is so wonderful. I hope I can get your Transputer emulator running to try it. I wish I'd spent my teen years doing something so awesome. One minor grammar thing: "didn't worked" should be "didn't work", because "do" in English as an auxiliary verb always takes the root form of the verb, just as "will", "may", and "can" do. Similarly "don't exists" should be "doesn't exist".
Thanks for the suggestions! I've updated the article.