> Hello Russell, and others,
>
> On 12/26/20, Russell Coker via luv-main <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Saturday, 26 December 2020 6:17:27 PM AEDT Keith Bainbridge via
>> luv-main
>>
>> wrote:
>>> On 26/12/20 2:51 pm, Tim Connors via luv-main wrote:
>>> > When I bought the laptop in 2014, I thought "32GB would be enough for
>>> > *anyone*!".
>>>
>>> Isn't that what 'they' said when RAM was limited to 1MB
>>
>> 32G seems a lot for just web browsing. I have 100+ tabs open in Chrome
>> and
>> it
>> runs fine in 8G.
>>
>> Software keeps getting bigger to fill all available space. I don't think
>> that
>> KDE now in 8G of RAM is doing anything for me that KDE didn't do for me
>> in
>> 96M
>> in 1999.
>
> I still remember effective wordprocessing with well under a megabyte
> of memory on the early PC's, whether IBM or quasi compatible. My first
> efforts were on a DEC Rainbow, under CPM 86/80 with "WPS". There was
> an equivalent package for the PDP8A running with something like 64 K
> or RAM, and supporting two concurrent users, and the daisy wheel
> printer, true letter quality printing. I can appreciate that the
> current software "frameworks" or libraries make it relatively quick
> and easy to put together larger software packages, and mostly enforce
> good multithreading and memory overrun protection practices, but they
> tend to produce significantly larger code and data memory footprints,
> and sometimes quite slow execution.
>
> I prefer the way that open source does it, where it can be seen and
> considered, rather than the closed source software where it becomes
> necessary to just trust the competence of the programmers, and their
> CVS practices.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark Trickett
>
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