What's the equivalent of 32KB?

P.S.

The "C" language telly you that minus 5000 volts is a "lesser quantity" than plus 1 volt.

In other words your little AA battery is more dangerous than a rail with minus 5000 volts on it.

Very smart software.

Peter.

P.S.

The "C" language telly you that minus 5000 volts is a "lesser quantity" than plus 1 volt.

In other words your little AA battery is more dangerous than a rail with minus 5000 volts on it.

Very smart software.

Peter.

The C language says nothing about voltage. It is a general programming language that only thinks exactly what it's told by the programmer. If it was miss-programmed that have nothing to do with the C language.

Bart.

can I ask why you are worried about such a small file size such as 32KB

32KB was the extent of the memory in the Apollo Guidance and Navigation system that landed Man on the moon and brought him back home.

So, one second of high quality audio, two words on Skype or a few pages of text ...

Puts it into persepective...

Yep, but that was just its data storage. The system was on hardware and ROM.

When you go back to the early 80's then the ZX Spectrum had 48kb of memory and was capable of keeping us all amused for hours of computer games.

In the context of the apollo system it would have been mainly storing numbers for computations, 32000+ digits give you a lot of room to work with. Especially since you only store what you need.

Even today you won't use that much memory with many programs. The operating system, the graphical interface etc. etc. will eat it up. I'd imagine that none of the compiled programs I did in college would have used more than 32k in running memory.

Yep, but that was just its data storage. The system was on hardware and ROM.

When you go back to the early 80's then the ZX Spectrum had 48kb of memory and was capable of keeping us all amused for hours of computer games.

In the context of the apollo system it would have been mainly storing numbers for computations, 32000+ digits give you a lot of room to work with. Especially since you only store what you need.

Even today you won't use that much memory with many programs. The operating system, the graphical interface etc. etc. will eat it up. I'd imagine that none of the compiled programs I did in college would have used more than 32k in running memory.

Errm, so what'll I tell the listeners on Fanning tomorrow

Errm, so what'll I tell the listeners on Fanning tomorrow

I'd go with the couple of seconds of mp3 then!

That's how much memory it had, and that's what people will understand - you don't need to give a computer science lecture!

you don't need to give a computer science lecture!

Dang - I was going to quote you verbatim...