Comment by Mr_Minderbinder

The author has a completely distorted view of computing history. 64K was not a “luxury” in 1982/1983. Average memory prices then were about $2000 per MB, 64K would have cost ~$100. The C64 launched with that amount of memory in 1982 and that was considered a cheap, budget microcomputer. As for other things which were supposedly typical of computing then: Expensive CPU cycles (wrong). No floating point (completely wrong and just shows the level of ignorance), Direct hardware access (not a constraint). Characterising the past this way certainly adds to the drama of their story but it is not accurate.