 shinjuruPremium,Mod
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Re: Changing Times I think I can hear the echoes of my first computer teacher saying,
"You'll never need more than 1mb of memory!" |
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 knightryI'm Not Fat, I'm Festively Plump
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Oviedo, FL | said by shinjuru:I think I can hear the echoes of my first computer teacher saying, "You'll never need more than 1mb of memory!" It's funny, I guess some things never change. Just 2 days ago one of my professors was going on about how programmers will never need more than 4GB that's becoming the standard virtual memory size.
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 mazhurgPremium
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Portage La Prairie, MB
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| said by knightry:said by shinjuru:I think I can hear the echoes of my first computer teacher saying, "You'll never need more than 1mb of memory!" It's funny, I guess some things never change. Just 2 days ago one of my professors was going on about how programmers will never need more than 4GB that's becoming the standard virtual memory size. X-plane terrain map takes a small 90GB all by itself..  And that is 3 M resolution.
While it's obviously paged in as required, sizes for the visible view will only increase as the data gets more accurate.
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