How do I know this?

I was the project lead, although the best parts of it were written by my smarter collaborator Michael O’Brien (eventually SVP of R&D at Technicolor).

This story is *not* the 32 to 64 bit transition.

This is just us trying to get another GB of address space, where we leveraged the ongoing Linux port work w/alot of our own.

Now that I think about it, all the impactful work I’ve done in my career happened in 32 bits of address space.

4GB always seemed like a lot to me.

@Drwave I’m still amazed at what I managed to achieve with just 32 KB of RAM… and 100 KB floppy discs to store programs and data on.

The first hard drives I remember using at school were huge & held, if my memory serves me, just 5 MB - and that seemed like a lot at the time.

We’ve come a very long way in the space of just a few decades.

@Bluedonkey totally agree.

But I tell this particular story because I expect folks today look at Finding Nemo (and the Pixar movies that preceded it) and don’t expect those were done on computers with less memory than pretty much every PC you can buy today.