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[cleggy]

This has been interesting and informative, I am staying as I am on 32 bit addressing and get 3.3 gig useable out of the 4 available.
Remember, I recall a maximum of 64k yes K, and 8bit addressing, as an ex IBM Systems Engineer and finally a Customer Support Manager for Large Systems. The current technology despite the basics rules not changing leave me somewhat bemused and feeling old.

[Marks DTM Calib]

There is still more 8 bit micros being built and used than any other type

[cleggy]

There is still more 8 bit micros being built and used than any other type

I am talking mainframes. micros were called "Toys and Novelties", along with PC's.

[Marks DTM Calib]

There is still more 8 bit micros being built and used than any other type

I am talking mainframes. micros were called "Toys and Novelties", along with PC's.

A mainframe is only a bunch of micros with an inflated price tag.

[cleggy]

There is still more 8 bit micros being built and used than any other type

I am talking mainframes. micros were called "Toys and Novelties", along with PC's.

A mainframe is only a bunch of micros with an inflated price tag.

They hadn't invented Micros back then. The first machine I worked with an IBM 360/40 had a ferrite ring core bomb of 64k, measured two foot by about eighteen inches and heavy as freak, wish I had one to weigh in at Podders scrap yard.