I finally maxed out the ram in my eMac, and while I mostly did it for OSX and possibly Linux, I booted it into OS 9, and got to watch Finder use all of 60mb. I don't think I've ever thrown this much ram at a Mac emulator, never mind the real classic Mac OS.
So it made me wonder, did anyone really need this much ram 20 years ago? Was Photoshop able to eat a whole gig of ram back in the day? Is there anything I can do on what's one of the faster Macs made to run OS 9 that would use most of the ram in that old OS? Because while it's holding its own against Leopard Webkit better than before, that's honestly not that impressive.
So it made me wonder, did anyone really need this much ram 20 years ago? Was Photoshop able to eat a whole gig of ram back in the day? Is there anything I can do on what's one of the faster Macs made to run OS 9 that would use most of the ram in that old OS? Because while it's holding its own against Leopard Webkit better than before, that's honestly not that impressive.