Phil Weldon wrote:

Seeing that the first computers I worked on had less main memory that
current Intel and AMD CPUs have L1 cache... I have a different take on
bloat.

Hehe. Yeah, me too.

What's wrong with bloat? A system that handles 4 GBytes well today
costs less that an month's lease on 4 Kbytes memory back when an OS ran 4
KBytes. What else would the use of 4 GBytes for 999 out of 1000 users?


"Bob" wrote in message
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On Wed, 18 May 2005 11:07:04 -0500, David Maynard
wrote:


Haven't bothered to, as 4 GBytes is far in my future.

Judging from the pace at which Windows bloats, it may be sooner than
you think.


Yeah. 4 gig is a 'future' thing for me too. But when you get to the 4 gig
stage go 64 bit and what PAE is won't matter anyway,


4 GB of RAM is obscene. I can remember when a 20 MB HD was considered
large.

I suppose you could set up 3 GB RAM disk. I bet that sucker would
scream.


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