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For someone who started computing on his father's Osborne 1, hearing people casually mention that they upgraded their server to 48GB induces something like vert
by sho 17y ago
For someone who started computing on his father's Osborne 1, hearing people casually mention that they upgraded their server to 48GB induces something like vertigo.
A 768,000 fold increase in main memory. Christ we've come a long way.
- neilc 17y agoAnd to think, hard drive seek latency has only improved by 2x or 3x.
- sho 17y agoThe Osborne 1 didn't even have an HDD! You think HDs are slow, try 5 1/4" floppies for latency. Anyway, SSDs soon. I will not be sorry to see the back of spinning magnetic media of any stripe.
- 10ren 17y agox3,000,000 for me (ZX81 with 16 K RAM pack - but if I'd stuck with the standard 1K, it would be... x48,000,000).
- 10ren 17y agoOne version of Moore's Law predicts x1000 increase in 15 years (x2 every 1.5 years; 2^10 = 1024). 48GB isn't standard today. The ordinary amount in an average desktop PC is about 2GB. Therefore, in 15 years (2024), we can expect ordinary, standard desktop PC to have 2TB RAM.