I'm not a programmer, but it does seem to me that today's programmers have been able to get sloppy in terms of memory usage. When I was a kid, I had a Commodore 64. It took a lot of talent and creativity to be able to program for a 64k machine. I think programmers these days figure the end user will have 1-2 gigs of RAM, so they don't try too hard to write ultra-efficient code. This is true at both the OS and the application level.
John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Why XP is doomed It has just become ridiculous how much memory you need for a workstation. I remember upgrading workstations to 32MB of memory and then 64MB and we thought that was a lot. Servers back then only had 1-2GB of memory. I remember the old Novell servers running with 512MB of memory. Mike ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
