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Paolo Amoroso  
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 More options Jun 26 2002, 12:03 pm
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: Paolo Amoroso <amor...@mclink.it>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 17:59:28 +0200
Local: Wed, Jun 26 2002 11:59 am
Subject: Re: Upper limits of CL

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:57:52 GMT, Erik Naggum <e...@naggum.net> wrote:
>   moving.  Just imagine what the engineers who worked miracles with 16K could
>   have done with the gigabyte now wasting away in my computer!  I still have

Examples of what has been done with even less than 16K can be found in:

  Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience
  http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/computers/Compspace.html

>   the swap disk lamp starts flashing, I am reminded of the stupid ad for some
>   German car maker: "The new <car> has more computing power than it took to
>   send a man to the moon!" (I think my trusty old HP48GX does, too), and my
>   first thought was "and yet you are stuck here on earth?"

:D For more info on the real thing, see:

  Apollo Guidance Computer
  http://hrst.mit.edu/hrs/apollo/public

Paolo

P.S.
By the way, the Apollo spacecraft had a "CDR" :)
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