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Originally Posted by geekmaster
We wrote large programs that ran on minicomputers with RAM measured in kilobytes, so yeah, the kindle has more than enough (and swap files are easy if you need more).
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Another example -
The computer in telephone office switching machines had 16Kwords (32Kbytes) of ram available for both the program and a disk based operating system.
The goal was to complete a dialed call between any two points in the nation (USA) in under 2 seconds.
They did it easily, from 4,000 to 16,000 simultaneous calls each.
(Just in case you needed an example of a hand written, multi-tasking, program (each call was a task)
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The processor in the Kindle has that much ram (each) for i-cache and d-cache.
And it is a 32-bit processor that is running light years faster than those 16-bit mini-computers where running.
Another example -
See our 'Mainframe in a zipper case' thread - about running IBM, OS-360 and its application programs on the Kindle Touch.
You would be impressed if you ever had to stand inline in the hallway, waiting for your job to finish on the mainframe.