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porridgeraisintoday at 11:54 AM1 replyview on HN

Perhaps they meant KB?


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mschaeftoday at 12:36 PM

That would make more sense. I was trying to imagine what sort of (custom?) hardware would accommodate that amount of memory back then. That was large storage even for mainframes the time. (The Cray 2 in the mid-1980's had 2GB, which was considered notably large.)