[mandeepj]

> 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.

[dhosek]

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]

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]

Let's replace "hard disk" with "external storage". Shall we?

[sib]

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

[Hackbraten]

What's a hard disk?

[aidenn0]

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