It's the same universal rule that governs your house: Possessions
expand to fill the available space.
Chuck Norcutt
On 4/7/2012 10:22 AM, David Thatcher wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 12:21:19PM +0100, Chris Barker wrote:
>
>> Thanks for that, David. But I meant that you are now able to fit more
>> RAM, and have the CPU use it, than was the case when some Macs were
>> sold.
>
>
> OK, I understand, I seem to have misunderstood your point - not the
> first time I did that this week!
>
> My second computer was a Z80 CP/M machine built on veroboard and I had
> about 48K of RAM available after the BDOS& BIOS- and I was very happy
> using things like Wordstar (to produce all my TAFE (college)
> assignments)& exploring the functions of things like Multiplan. Later,
> a certain person one said that 640K of RAM would be enough for
> anything...
>
> I find that the 32-bit limitation of 3.5G(-ish) is quite enough for what
> I do with my UNIX machine (even running the GIMP), but my w7-64bit
> machine with 4G gets close to running out after 3 or 4 days running
> doing basically nothing.
>
> I guess my point is that as hardware gets better, with more CPU cycles&
> more RAM available, someone somewhere will write software wasteful
> enough to fill it. :)
>
> davidt
>
>
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