Neil Brown
I am "4GB of RAM is a ludicrously huge amount of RAM for a webserver" years old.
Apr 4 at 8:01pmWeb
Show threadMx. Eddie R1d ago
@neil
I remember when only NASA had the resources for 4GB of RAM; they found memory leaks and dangling pointers even QNX themselves didn't know about because there had never been real storage that high in the address space.
Show threadPersephone1d ago
@neil Goddess I miss the days when we cared about minimising resource usage.
Show threadNav1d ago
@neil I am "My first PC had 4MB of RAM (which was quite a lot!)" and "My first computer had <4kb of available RAM" years old.
Show threadTobias1d ago
@neil It still is, tho.
Show threadBen Curthoys1d ago
@neil I was seriously looking at new phones yesterday because apparently 4gb ram isn't enough to run a web browser and handle a 2fa request any more.
Show threadSaul1d ago
@neil I am “I’ve just installed a 2GB hard drive in my PC and I’m feeling pretty fly” years old.
Show threadNeil Brown1d ago
@saulm 2 *GB*?! I bought a 32 *MB* storage card for my handheld device, and I was over the moon at how much storage I had.
Show threadChristof Damian 💙💛1d ago

@neil
I had the TI Mini Mem extension for the TI 99/4A that gave me 4K extra!

I'm pretty sure that memory for webservers when I started was still measured in MB.
@saulm

Show threadSaul1d ago
@neil Now you’re just showing off. I couldn’t afford the 10MB hard drive for my Atari ST.
Show threadbazbt3 🦣1d ago

@neil @Szescstopni I am "how could anyone need more than 4MB RAM in a graphics card" years old.¹

But also "I just upgraded from 1KB RAM to 3583 bytes free RAM" years old.²

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¹ Matrox Millennium
² ZX81 to VIC-20

Show threadHighlandLawyer1d ago
@bazbt3 @neil @Szescstopni
Also the Vic rampack didn't suffer from wobbling like the ZX81 one did.
Show threadbazbt3 🦣21h ago
@HighlandLawyer @neil @Szescstopni I gave up on that before getting a ribbon cable. :)
Show threadJames Baker1d ago
@neil First PC I built was 166mhz with a whooping 64mb of ram
Show threadHighlandLawyer1d ago
@neil
I am "you can write a decent computer game in 3.5k" years old
Show threadJohn Gordon1d ago
@neil DOS Carousel
Show threadRichard Cole ¯\_(🧔🏻)_/¯21h ago
@neil
A friend, who collected pirated movies, once told me he had nearly a Terabyte of disc.
We al stepped back in amazement as at the time a 20 Gigabyte disc was enormous.
Show threadtrainguyrom20h ago

@neil the SD card in my camera has about twice as much storage and at multiple times the speed as my first computer did. My camera is old enough that it only officially supports up to 64GB SD cards and I've seen reports of instability if a larger capacity SD card is used

So I suppose that makes me "my first & second computer's OS & programs install could fit on a single cheap SD card" old