32bit vs 64bit machines
Ok...another dumb question before I either upgrade current computer or go new. Decided this should be separate from my other post. Currently have a 2008 HP Pavillion Desktop running Vista Home P...
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Johno02 wrote:
My first IBM mainframe was the biggest in its series at 64K bytes. We even had three ramdom-access disk drives, and two tape drives. And we played music on the printer!
First job I had was at a small insurance company running a 16k s/360/30. All programs were assembly language, 2 disk drives, 4 tape. the disk drives were "reserved" for the systems programmer so all applications were tape. Boy was it fun loading two trays of cards to compile the main auto rating program. Hope you didn't drop them.
We got in a "new to us hand me down" 30 from our home office. Upgraded it to 32k so we could run the Power partition, an online partition, and a batch. We were big time.
I've written some C, Java and it's all just coding. Different problems to solve. The adage of yesteryear still holds true. Software will grow to fit the box its loaded into. You know you're in trouble when the hardware company also sells software.
