> 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.

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dhosek 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

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.

	▲	unregistereddev 6 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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.
	▲	mandeepj 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Let's replace "hard disk" with "external storage". Shall we?

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sib 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The article refers to the need to support machines that did not even have hard disk drives.

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Hackbraten 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What's a hard disk?

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aidenn0 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

OK. You have no hard disk, just a 360K floppy.