On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 17:23:02 +0000, Peter Flynn wrote: >The reason I might over-equip a system with RAM is to prevent my being >unable to do so later if the technology changes and that particular >type of memory becomes unavailable; or (with a laptop, for example) >because the cost of adding it later is unreasonably high.
Yesno! >640TB is enough for anyone :-) Yesno! The 512 KiB RAM of my Atari 520 ST are replaced by 4 MiB of PC RAM. This is the max RAM that could be used with Atari ST computers and "normal" RAM for the ST wouldn't fit into the 520 ST case anyway. To replace the RAM does cost absolutely nothing, as long as PC computer trash provides RAM, that still is slow enough for usage with the Atari. Sure, you need to have the skills to replace RAM by RAM that requires soldering and cable connections. My ST's SCSI HDD has got a size of around 42 MiB. IOW making plans for computers that are longer used, than the industry wants us to use hardware, is not really possible. You could plan for a foreseeable time, depending on the kind of usage, this could be much more than 10 years using the same machine, but even after many years you unlikely will need more RAM for this machine. It might be possible that you need to replace borked RAM, then it might be comfortable, if the machine was over-equip, assuming no trash computers from this generation should be available, to repair the computer. -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
