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You remind me of my professor telling me not to complain about low memory. He then will tell me about how much he was excited when he could have a machine with
by elashri 3y ago
You remind me of my professor telling me not to complain about low memory. He then will tell me about how much he was excited when he could have a machine with 1MB memory in 1980s when he was my age.
- pjmlp 3y ago48 KB on my case, in 1986, with a Timex 2068. Later on I was kind of envious of my friends with an Amiga 500 and its 512 KB, until getting a 386 SX, with 2 MB in 1992. Yeah, really understand where the professor was coming from.
- elashri 3y agoThese discussions always remind me that I was born between two eras. I am too young to have lived through seeing how little resources computers had and how limited network communication was. But also too old to be in the era where people grow up with abundance of tech (personal phones, computers...etc). So, I am still amazed by how people on the two sides spectrum grew up.
- pjmlp 3y agoIt happens to all generations, I had a professor which used to tell the story of how he broke the record of compilations per days on computer department, by being able to deliver new cards at every compilation shift throughout the day. The "interactive" compile-debug-fix of his day. Something that I never experienced myself.
- robertlagrant 3y agoMemory was a real limitation, though. You can store an insane amount of stuff with 20GB already.
- biofox 3y agoYou can store an insane amount of plain text or low-res jpegs. My collection of papers and ebooks far exceeds 20 GB though.