Re: OT: In Praise of Dos-Based Word Processors

[Kari Eveli lexitec@xxxxxxxx]

I think there should be some kind of adjustment for the memory / disk
space needed by operating systems at the time. A raw comparison is not
very illuminating. DOS does not need and cannot use TB disks or
gigabytes of memory, they are not meaningful. Modern systems need much
more just to start.


To run MS-DOS 6.22 you need:
RAM: 			512 KB
Hard disk space:	5 MB

To run Windows 8.1 you need:
RAM: 			1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)
Hard disk space: 	16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)


Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxx

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16.5.2014 16:59, Bill Troop wrote:
> > Since my first hard drive (for the NorthStar Horizon) in 1983, hard
> > drive prices have dropped one-million-fold. That's not a guess, it's a
> > calculation based on the $1,000 I paid then for 20 megabytes vs. the
> > $100 you pay now for 2 TB.
>
> That's already a bargain compared to the reported $3500 Apple charged
> for a 5MB HD, or $700,000 per MB, in 1981. The hard drive was then
> already 25 years old, so you could get even more impressive factors by
> delving back to the first manufactured models and adjusting prices.