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Designers that did print-quality photography, especially posters, have always been crying out for more memory. In the G3 and G4 days with easy-open computers i
by astrodust 10y ago
Designers that did print-quality photography, especially posters, have always been crying out for more memory.
In the G3 and G4 days with easy-open computers it wasn't uncommon for one designer to put out a call for more memory to do something intensive, like edit a poster, and other designers would sacrifice a stick or two to the cause. When the job was done they'd put the memory back in the other machines.
- simonh 10y agoRathole alert, but I worked at a Forestrey Commission Research Station here in the UK in the 90s. One of the mathematicians was running an environmental model on a Sun workstation and it was running out of RAM and swapping and was going to take 2 days to run at that rate. The department had another identical workstation that wasnt being used just then and I pointed out I could swap half of it's RAM to his machine for the day. He and his boss looked at me as though I was insane. An hour later they called me and asked me to do it, the model run completed in a couple of hours and I swapped the RAM back.