RAM in my most-used personal computer:
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Re:Definitions (Score:5, Funny)
If you're on Slashdot and can't figure out what your PC is then hopefully you will drown in a pool of your own pedanticosity.
Re:RAM's cheap (Score:3, Funny)
Or getting just a wife...
Re:Answers Explained (Score:5, Funny)
Re:RAM's cheap (Score:5, Funny)
Re:RAM's cheap (Score:5, Funny)
Or getting just a wife...
I know. Those shipping costs are atrocious.
640MB ought to be enough for anybody (Score:5, Funny)
Back in the late 90s I built a computer lab at work, and at one point I bumped up some of the PCs to 640MB, just because it seemed appropriate. My current lab has a couple of VMware servers with 72GB of RAM.
My first VAX came with 4MB, which was the most that would fit in the 2-rack chassis. A year or two later we upgraded it to 8MB, which was possible because they had denser RAM chips, then another year or two later to 16MB. It had 1GB of disk space (4 washing-machine-sized drives, cost $120K); I've currently got 4 GB USB flake in my wallet, and I may have lost another 4GB in the wash at some point. By the late 80s, most of the workstations we used had 8-16MB RAM, but we had a few specialized graphics workstations with 48MB, which let you do all kinds of things in real-enough time.
And back in college, the university mainframe was out of action for a month or so because they'd had trouble adding the fourth megabyte to it (and then another time when there was a plumb leak in the water cooling.) If you ran CMS, you could define a virtual machine that would let you use a whole megabyte! Yourself! (I've forgotten by now what the standard limits had been on non-VM process size.) But if the mainframe was down, one of the operators had a punch-card deck that would let you run 4KB BASIC on the minicomputer that drove the card reader and printer. (And yes, it was uphill both ways in the snow.)
Re:RAM's cheap (Score:5, Funny)
my old laptop that i got rid of this year maxed out at 48mb and had a 1.2 gb hdd
i would have kept it, it had no battery though and i didn't want to root it's password since it was still a floppy drive model. (no optical drive)
but it ran debian and windows 95 just fine except the bsod problem with win95, and not remembering the debian password.
So, it ran great, except for all the problems that it had.
You insensitive clod! (Score:5, Funny)