@Mikal @luis_in_brief @WagesOf While the mainframe computers of the time could have had that much RAM, pocket computers (which themselves did not exist) could not have.
I think the implication there is that if a simple, shirt pocket sized device could have the processing power of the VAX that the phone company uses to process billing, the computers that ran everything were unfathomably powerful.
https://hackers.town/@drwho/113533625582208528
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