Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> I was thinking about it, and I realized the giant mainframe I learned to 
> program on had 512K of memory to run the entire college, both administrative 
> and teaching.  Back then I never really thought of it - you had the memory 
> you had and if something didn't fit you made it smaller.

  I still remember the time when 4 MB in a PC was a pretty decent amount
of RAM (and more expensive than 4 GB or RAM today). The notion of having
1 GB of RAM seemed completely unthinkable back then (there were no RAM
chips even *nearly* that big, no PC motherboards that would have supported
that much RAM with RAM chips of the time, and even if there had been, such
a motherboard would have costed a fortune, and the RAM itself would have
probably costed as much as 100 entire top-of-the-line PCs.) Today 2 GB of
RAM is a typical minimum configuration, and a chip of that size has become
ridiculously cheap (haven't checked, but probably less than half of what
4 MB of RAM costed in the 90's).

  OTOH games (which is usually the only reason you need that much RAM) look
slightly better than they did in the 90's, so it's warranted.

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                                                          - Warp

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