programming challenge: double words

[Skaperen]

yeah, these days, memory is cheap. i remember back when i came up with a compression algorithm that was better than gzip. it needed about 5MB. that was impractical back then. it would be no worry today. the first mainframe i used had 256kB of memory and did not do virtual.

[Ofnuts]

8K for me (IBM1130).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKHFZBUTA4k

[Larz60+]

Used an 1130 back in 1980. I liked is because it had keyboard entry (or more like teletypewriter input)

[micseydel]

There are applications where data does not fit in memory today. That they're less common doesn't mean that they don't come up :)

[Skaperen]

There are applications where data does not fit in memory today. That they're less common doesn't mean that they don't come up  :)

yes they do happen, especially those that scale based on input data or user misconfiguration.