Laptops

[Cap]

Bryan is correct on the correction. I tried keeping the info in lay terms. A byte consists of 8 bits, the stream being a series of on and offs. The configuration of the bits in the byte determines the information contained therein. Then there's clusters and a whole lot more techie stuff that used to be important in the Win 3.1, Win95, and early Win98 days especially when a 512mb hard drive cost a bunch of bucks.

Reminiscing slightly, my first "laptop" has a gas plasma display, running DOS 6.0, a 512mb hard drive and 8mb ram. It was a screamer in those days. I still find myself using DOS to rectify Windows issues. No program was greater than 640K in size. Sighhhhhh, the good old days.

[Bryan Durio]

I cut my teeth in the '70s on a state-of-the-art 36-bit mainframe computer called Multics. It used 9-bit bytes, and was the first OS to be implemented using a high-level language, PL/1, and was the first implementation of Dynamic Paging, Segmentation, and Virtual Memory. UNIX and other modern-day Operating Systems are based on Multics.

The kicker is that Multics was written in the late 1960s!

[Art Dearing]

[img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif[/img] Thank you all for your input.

I am all set to tackle the Laptop issue. :clap

DJ Art

[Bryan Durio]

Originally posted by Cap@Jan 24 2005, 03:29 PM
A byte consists of 8 bits, the stream being a series of on and offs.

A wise man has said:

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>There are 10 types of people in this world - those who understand binary and those who don't.[/b][/quote]

I think that says it all! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

[Cap]

[img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] Oh My GOSH! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

I don't understand thread lingo by I believe my hearty laughter outburst at my computer's screen has some neat acronym. You, Bryan, are way funny. Kudos to the wise man.

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