Reply to post: Re: No love for CORAL 66?

ALGOL 60 at 60: The greatest computer language you've never used and grandaddy of the programming family tree

matthewdjb

Re: No love for CORAL 66?

In memory processing. We loaded our entire billing system into an alpha with a whole 2GB of memory. The billing run on the vax would take two hours. On the alpha, two minutes. (and then it still took five hours to print out the bills).

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