>> Other than audio and video data (which is inherantly large), I can't
>> think of anything you can do with a computer that actually uses much
>> memory. Playing games involves audio and video data, but I'm
>> hard-pressed to think of anything else...
> 
> Virtualization of multiple OSes.  Lots of people use VMware for testbeds 
> and such, that takes a good amount of memory.

Surely you'd only *attempt* such a thing on an extremely high-end server 
though? (Recall that Vista is a desktop OS.)

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