On Wed, 18 May 2005 14:46:43 -0500, David Maynard
wrote:

4 GB of RAM is obscene.

But bloat rules. It may be existential.

I can remember when a 20 MB HD was considered large.

I can not only remember when a 12 inch pizza platter hard drive was 1.2 meg
I've got two drives and a dozen packs in the garage.

That goes back a bit. I can remember the Physics Dept doing particle
experiments with drum storage. The memory took a good sized room.

If bloat rules, then how come all advances in computers have come
about by smallness?

That's another existential question.


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