Hello Russell, and others,
On 12/26/20, Russell Coker via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> 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