> Not really, no.
>
> Just chromatagrams. I gather that they're quite large... (Well, the data 
> is almost always very noisy.)

Exactly, almost every company has their requirements for something more than 
just plain text.  Whether it's specialist scientific diagrams, photos, fancy 
graphics or whatever.  Not many companies just produce reports and things in 
plain-text.

> My point is not so much that we should go back to using 32K machines, but 
> rather that we should go back to the days of programs only using more than 
> 32K if they *need* it for something. ;-)

If I load up a blank Word or Excel document, it uses 0.5% of my physical 
RAM... I can cope with that as being essentially "zero"...

What I'm struggling to cope with at the moment is my CFD simulation that 
keeps running out of RAM :-)

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