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Just think. Those machines ran a search engine. Today, only one--perhaps two--would be capable of running a web browser, even then extremely slowly.
by J_Darnley 11y ago
Just think. Those machines ran a search engine. Today, only one--perhaps two--would be capable of running a web browser, even then extremely slowly.
- pjc50 11y agoThis is tragically accurate. Using http://www.jcmit.com/memoryprice.htm http://www.jcmit.com/memoryprice.htm I see that RAM was about £30/Mb in 1996, meaning that the Firefox process I'm typing this in which is using 400Mb of RAM would have cost over ten thousand dollars. (I remember upgrading my PC to 4Mb so I could play DOOM round about then)
- blincoln 11y agoYeah. My PC at the time had 1/420th of the disk space and 1/250th of the RAM in their web indexer. We've come a long way.
- yuhong 11y ago1996 was when DRAM prices was finally falling fast, and 64Mbit DRAM chips was new and very expensive.
- dexterdog 11y agoTo be fair the price was 1/10 that a year later.