At 06:59 PM 4/2/2003 -0800, you wrote:
[snip]
Luxury, indeed! My Heathkit H-89 had SIXTEEN KILOBYTES of RAM!
Hmmmmph. We used to *dream* of sixteen kilobytes of RAM.
I was building banks of J-K flip-flops (sort of like an Altair 8800 on a
starvation diet) and linking 'em together in various configurations back in
the mid-70's. Did Boolean algebra with 256 bytes of RAM. No input or
output devices other than the toggle switches, jumper cables and
blinkenlights. When I saw my first real personal computer (an Apple Lisa
in '83 or so) I was blown away. I continue to marvel at the fact that I
own a wristwatch that has more computing power than the onboard systems
that sent the Apollo missions to the moon, and that you can buy (and then
throw away) a greeting card with a chip inside that has more digital
processing power than existed on the entire planet prior to 1952.
Yeah, *baby.*
>(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! :-)
It's both, really. And the horsepower. And the system bus. And...
and... (tilt, tilt, tilt...). But the real leap in workflow is when you
have two or more slaved together in a LAN -- I can't imagine going back to
work on a single machine except for specific reasons.
Garth
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