[Info-vax] Large mailboxes

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <mn.dc417e4bf07546ca.104627 at invalid.skynet.be>, Marc Van Dyck
<marc.gr.vandyck at invalid.skynet.be> writes: 

> BTW, the first VAX I worked with had 1.5 MB of DEC memory and another
> MB from a less expensive third party company. This is the kind of
> figure that lets you figure how far we are coming from, and how fast
> it has evolved. Today it's the memory size you get in a wristwatch...

I remember, about 15 years ago, unpacking a mobile phone with 32 MB and 
noticing that I had some VAXen with less memory.

About 5 years ago, my son, learning to be a tailor (no, not VMSTAILOR), 
said that 8 GB RAM was the minimum he needed in a laptop.

About 25 years ago, we had DM 150,000 to spend on workstations (and went 
with DEC after benchmarking our own applications) and calculated 100 DM 
per MB for RAM.

I've been given hardware that cost 50,000---100,000 (pounds, franks, 
dollars, marks, euros---doesn't really matter much) new after only about 
5 years or so.

And a VMS cluster used to be in the Top-500 list.