> My first programming primer (Fortran ... them days) had a very concise > delineation of the difference between neat programming and the much > more common alternative -- "given a big enough engine, even brick will > fly". I never cared for the american "muscle" cars but was always > fascinated with the slick european sports cars. I guess that is the > same attraction I have for OpenBSD. I also find that the currently > popular obsession with CPU cores, GHz and GBs is nothing more than the > computer version of the muscle car. (yes, I am aware that there are > specialized applications that do require the use of a monster-sized > dump truck with an engine to match, but in reality how many places have > a genuine need of a database that even with fully optimized design > requires that much physical RAM?) >
Most people that have those big amounts of memory don't use their PCs full potential. CPU is mostly idle, etc. Also they don't realize how big those amounts of memory are... Also there is the environment problem, too many good computers throwned away because of mere fashion... I'm pretty happy with my "new" Thinkpad X22 with 256mb RAM running OpenBSD 4.6 :)
