Probably talking about swapping it in from some external datastore. These days you would open the file and dump it into a single buffer and rip across it, and not even really stress about it. Even 256 meg of hard drive. That would have been impressively expensive in the 80s.
Back then you had to chunk it out and fiddle with the offsets. Even then you still would have had to manage loading out the next chunk.
If my memory is right 1MB of memory in the early 90s was like 200-300 per meg. Would have to dig up a computer shopper and look.
Back then you had to chunk it out and fiddle with the offsets. Even then you still would have had to manage loading out the next chunk.
If my memory is right 1MB of memory in the early 90s was like 200-300 per meg. Would have to dig up a computer shopper and look.