Comments by "Toby" (@toby9999) on "What's Virtual Memory? - Computerphile" video.

  1. I can still remember writing 6502 code all in hex for the C64. No assembler.
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  2. Apple didn't lead the way. PCs have had pre-emptive multitasking since the 90's. Even the Amiga home computer had it in the 80's. The Amiga had color graphics while the Mac was still monochrome. And I can remember how the Apple network would crash when any application running on one of power macs would hang. I can also remember the nightmare it was to develop software that was backward compatible on Macs. Something that was trivial on PCs. I have Windows apps that I developed in the 90's that will run on Windows 10 without modification and I have applications developed on Windows 10 that will run on Windows 7 and in some cases even on XP.
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  3. Swapping with SSD storage doesn't sound like a good idea anyway.
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  4. I can remember floppys. The thin flat ones that were actually floppy. The first computer I used only had storage on cassette tapes with a massive transfer rate of 300 bits per sec.
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