Alain wrote:

> Do you remember when windows 3 came out?

No. That was back before I started using PCs.

> Do you remember when windows 95 came out? Peoples complained about how 
> much RAM it needed and that many video cards where not up to the task. 
> Not just that, but LOOK at all the disk space it needs!!! Many said that 
> is was horribly huge and bloated.

Can't help feeling they'd be right...

> The thing is that as the hardware evolve, OS and softwares do the same, 
> and backware compatibility can't be maintained/guaranted for more that 1 
> or 2 hardware generations.
> As the hardware can do more, the OS follows suit and DO more. As rhe RAM 
> become cheaper, softwares grow to use that RAM to do more.

The underlying assumption seems to be that to do more requires more 
hardware.

Sure, manipulating an 8 megapixel photo takes a lot of RAM. But what 
about while you're *not* manipulating an 8 megapixel photo? Why should 
it require any more RAM then? (Not to mention CPU time...)

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