Comment by mandeepj
4 months ago
> How do you store your list of 200K words on a system with only 256K of memory?
Your hard disk is almost always larger than your RAM. You only load into memory what's needed at the moment. I hope that gives a hint on how to proceed with the above problem.
But you don’t necessarily even have a hard disk. You might only have a 320K floppy. Floppy-only computers were pretty common in the late 80s when I was in undergrad.
Indeed, I remember having to insert a dedicated 5 1/4" floppy in order to run spell check in Apple Writer on an Apple ][e.
Let's replace "hard disk" with "external storage". Shall we?
The article refers to the need to support machines that did not even have hard disk drives.
What's a hard disk?
OK. You have no hard disk, just a 360K floppy.