>From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>At 01:44 PM 4/2/2003 +0100, Giles Stewart wrote:
>
> >Yes and the computer had 16mb of ram.
>
>*Luxury*!
>
>My Atari Mega STe had a whopping 4 Megs o' RAM, and my IBM-owning friends
>used to drool over that much RAM.
Luxury, indeed! My Heathkit H-89 had SIXTEEN KILOBYTES of RAM!
>(Now I own a Dell that's a dedicated
>graphics workstation that has 2,048 Megs of 800 MHz DDR-SDRAM, and there
>are days when I think it's not enough and/or it's too slowwwwww...
Yea, Wintel machines are like gas engines, Macs are like diesels. I routinely
work on 1.5GB images on my 400 MHz Power Mac. (It ain't the RPMs, it's the
torque! :-)
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