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Re:The State of the Art is Terrible by angelbob on Monday October 03, 2011 @11:35PM (#3069242)
Youngster? Gee, thanks! I remember writing my first program on a Commodore Pet with 4K of RAM

That thing he's talking about with non-sequential placement of bytes on the drum is well before that.

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Re:The State of the Art is Terrible by ramchip on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @03:26AM (#3069790)
He said "Before even my time" for the drums bit.
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Re:The State of the Art is Terrible by 0x12 on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @06:36AM (#3070256)
And it was blocks not bytes.
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Re:The State of the Art is Terrible by jff on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @01:56PM (#3072029)
Well, but everyone's read "The Story of Mel" :)
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