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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
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Subject: Re: tiny COBOL,  Article on new mainframe use
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> A C64 had 64K 8-bit bytes of RAM,

Indeed (tho, IIRC 8kB of those were hidden by the ROM, tho you could
change the mapping to hide different 8kB at different time and thus
access the full 64kB of RAM).

> and the floppies held about 1.2MB but they were a
> whole lot cheaper than 1311 disk packs.

IIRC they held only ~170kB.
>1MB floppies arrived later (in the days of 3½" floppies, IIRC).


        Stefan