On 21/02/2013 16:17, Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 11:12 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
Back in the early days, programmers spent the time and effort to
optimize their code because time is money and RAM was expensive.
And not there... On many personal computers, the limit to what you
could put into the computer could be quite low. Even on fairly recent
ones. I was given a 3 GHz 64 bit box that you can only put two one gig
memory sticks in. A very short sighted design.
Yeah, tell me about it. Even relatively recent Intel chipsets (e.g.
X38/X48) only supported up to 8GB of RAM. Slightly earlier chipsets for
the Core2 only supported up to 4GB, of which you only usually got 3.5GB
(I have such a machine here). So much for the 64-bitness bringing the
benefits of lots of RAM...
Gordan
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