On 5/23/2013 3:19 PM, Joel Black wrote:
Trying to load both, one right after the other, I watched my free memory drop to 1.31GB and then the app just quit.
The Apollo Guidance Computer, which got us to the moon multiple times, had 36 kilowords of program ROM [literally hard *wired* core memory], and 2 kilowords of volatile core memory, all 16 bit words [15 data+parity no floating point], and it did "rocket science calcs" all the way to the moon and back.
The Win 7 machine I send on here has 8 GB of RAM and one terabyte of disk spread over two 500 GB drives. Admittedly, it has a somewhat more visually appealing user interface than the DSKY the astronauts used, and it handles the Internet very nicely, something that was just being invented at the end of the 60's, but I really do wonder where all the memory has gone. I wonder sometimes, not often, what Windows and the applications do with all of it.
Salesman in the Sprint store was regaling me with the amount of memory in the various phones he wanted to sell me. I was sort of still at, "They have HOW much memory?" I don't know what the various Elecraft radios and accessories have, I do know that new features come out periodically and none of the old ones go away, so apparently they designed in some "mission creep."
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