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> I always think back to when I had a 120MB hard disk in the early 90s.... 90s me would be absolutely floored by a text editor needing 438MB RAM. That isn't RA
by SyneRyder 9y ago
> I always think back to when I had a 120MB hard disk in the early 90s.... 90s me would be absolutely floored by a text editor needing 438MB RAM.
That isn't RAM, that's 438MB of drive space. Even the compressed zip download for Atom is bigger than would have fit on that entire hard drive (Atom 1.24 is 123MB zip download).
Though the RAM usage is pretty close, with no files loaded it was using 360MB RAM here.