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My first computer, an Atari 520ST, came standard with 196K of ROM and 512K of RAM. The OS (GEM) was on a dedicated chip. Everything was run off floppy disks.
Can someone explain to me why it always seems like everyone on lemmy are in one of these two categories:
1: “I remember my first computer used ferro-magnetic beads that we glued to lengths of string. We could store nearly 10 bytes in one string”.
2: “My first computer was an old iPad that only had 64GB storage, couldn’t even store my photo album.”
It’s like everyone is aged either 89 or 19, nobody in between.
I typed my response before I saw this but yeah, it’s my first response every time.
In university, they stopped giving out software licenses for personal machines in favor of letting students connect to virtual machines they hosted. They allocated 8GB of RAM which wasn’t horrible at the time, but they only allocated 4GB of storage. Only time I’ve ever seen that ratio.
Probably because the RAM was pooled, but storage was not. So your RAM allocation is part of a larger pool that is shared between all currently logged in users. But your storage is allocated/reserved up front, and is used only by you.
The software industry show you quickly that 8GB, independent where, isn’t by far enough. Since HW programmed obsolence is out, since current PC last more than a Washing machine, they do it with min sys specs of their products. The times, where a 3D FPS was released in a single 96KB file is far away.
Still downloadable as Abandonware https://www.myabandonware.com/game/kkrieger-chapter-1-cl1
Since when was 8GB RAM, let alone 8GB VRAM, a problem? Are you running ML models, video editing or some special games?? Or some weird poorly-written thing like Windows OS?
Software is a gas, it expands to use all available resources.
I have 32GB of RAM, and run out occasionally. At the moment I have two CAD programs, thousands of pages of datasheets and reference manuals, an IDE, and ~50 browser tabs open. I don’t HAVE to have them all open at once, but it does save me a lot of time.
My next machine will have 128GB, and I expect that will run out of memory too.
Also, sometimes you need to use software that has a memory leak, so a bit of extra RAM gives you some more time before it crashes.
Nowadays even at 1080p 8GB of Vram doesn’t cut it.
Doesn’t cut what? Web browsing? Watching videos? Playing new games?
Playing new games at high settings. The card often does have raw performance to handle it but due to lack of VRAM results in terrible framerate or lack of detail
Ah, that makes sense. I rarely-if-ever play heavyweight games.
My 1060 would like a word, at 940*544 so it’ll be blurry. But it would like to talk.
Are you running ML models
Yes.
I remember my first 20MB HDD. Imagined it would be impossible to ever fill this gargantuan hog. Well…
I’m young enough that the first “computer” I ever owned in my childhood was the first generation iPad. 64 GB felt huge back then and was a pretty big deal for solid state storage for the time.
I then got a junker Windows XP computer mainly because the iPad didn’t let me mess around with the OS nearly as much as I wanted. Learned to program on that old computer using the iPad for online tutorials. But the hard drive was only 40 GB and it blew kid me’s mind the difference in size between the single chip of the iPad and the metal brick of the hard drive, yet the hard drive has less storage.
Lol…that is still a thing that amazes me up to today. My watch now has more ram than my first 10 computers had combined with ram and HDD 😁
I have 3GB of VRAM. 8 would be great!
HARD DISK STORAGE 🪦
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Linux Mint runs pretty well on 8 gigs of ram on a T460.
1 tb is a good start for most use case. 5 tb…? now you’re getting somewhere.
L1 cache?
Registers
You’re talking about register width, right?
Yeah, 5TB for every register of course.
I fondly remember having 8 GB of storage, because I could back up my hard drive on like two dollars worth of CD-Rs.
I feared no virus. Reinstalling XP was a monthly affair regardless.
I remember the OS running from an 51/4" cardboard Floppy
Who needs more than 8GB disk space for a Debian computer with Firefox and Chrome?
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