scott wrote:
> Because when everyone had only 256 MB of RAM, there weren't cameras that 
> could generate 10 mega-pixel images, video cameras capable of creating 
> 1920x1080x30fps resolution video, DVDs that could store 8GB worth of 
> game data, graphics cards that were capable of rendering billions of 
> multiply-textured triangles per second etc etc.

I remember when Myst first came out on a CD. Wow, over 600 meg on one 
read-only disk. "Well," I thought, "there goes the end of game pirating. 
You'd never be able to copy such a thing onto a hard drive."

And yeah, it's nice to have a 10G text file, wonder how you're going to 
trim lines off the top and bottom conveniently, and then realize you are 
on a 64-bit machine with 16G of RAM, so you just fire up VI.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
  Helpful housekeeping hints:
   Check your feather pillows for holes
    before putting them in the washing machine.

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