[geeks] Eeeek

Jochen Kunz jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de
Thu Apr 11 07:35:23 CDT 2002


On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 07:42:51PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:

> Whats sad is that 512 megabytes is no longer a "woah" number.  For that
> VAX, yeah.. but I have a gig in at least two machines here. 8-(
To put things in relation: At the days of the VAX 8800 Sun had only 
some small VME boxen like the 3/160 that maxed out at 16MB or 64MB. 
Today: OK. I have 640MB in my Alpha and that is not "woah" for that
machine. Especially since Alphas are extreamly RAM hungry. 
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         Jochen

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