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Transcend Debuts 128GB RAM Upgrades for 2013 Mac Pro
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I don't think "euphemism" means what you think it means, assuming that's the word you meant to write.
Why does it bother you that a writer chooses to use a natural adverb ("slowly", "more slowly") over an adjective ("slow", "slower") when an adverb is what is grammatically called for?
I would love to have 10 or 20 Pro's maxed out to run Memcashed on. They would be great for a CoLo DB server. (I am sure, this is one of the few times a non Apple box would be a better choice.)
It is a direct quote from Bill Gates.
Is it the speed of the RAM that is slowing it down or is it that, when you pile in that much RAM, it clogs down the memory controller. I do not know.
Go sniff the litter box!
(Joke. please don't be offended.)
It is a direct quote from Bill Gates.
Is it the speed of the RAM that is slowing it down or is it that, when you pile in that much RAM, it clogs down the memory controller. I do not know.
Go sniff the litter box!
(Joke. please don't be offended.)
No it isn't. It is a line attributed to him, but nobody has ever found out where he supposedly did.
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1997/01/1484
http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...te_won_t_go_away_but_did_Gates_really_say_it_
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.folklore.computers/mpjS-h4jpD8
Assuming you're talking strictly about Macs rather than home computers in general (e.g. the Amiga less than a year later came with 256-512KB ram and was readily expandable to 8.5MB), you "could" expand the original Mac to 512 kB by means of soldering sixteen IC sockets to accept 256 kb RAM chips in place of the factory-installed chips (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Macintosh).
You two are seriously comparing a $500 mobile device's RAM to a $3000 professional work station's RAM?
I really hope you're joking...
That's noting my first computer came with 1k of RAM arrived as a box of electronic components that I had to solder together myself. Back then 16k was an expensive luxury but if you tell kids that today and they won't believe you.
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Finite element analysis tools are very hungry on RAM, analyse a complex model and 128GB fills up in no time.
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That's noting my first computer came with 1k of RAM arrived as a box of electronic components that I had to solder together myself. Back then 16k was an expensive luxury but if you tell kids that today and they won't believe you.
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Finite element analysis tools are very hungry on RAM, analyse a complex model and 128GB will soon fill up.
Hah, I (also?) built a zx81 with my dad
- that membrane keyboard
oh boy was it bad.Hah, I (also?) built a zx81 with my dad
Those were the days, can't tell you how excited I was when that box of components arrived. Took me and my dad a few days to get it working but it was worth it. My entire career in computing started with that little black box. Keyboard was terrible though
OOOh we live in the future, cooooool!!
Seriously dude, you are chatting rubbish.
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That thing has 500 times more RAM than my first computer which had 256MB of RAM.
Mine had 4 MB!!! And mine had twice the normal amount.
It rocked!
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Hello, do your math again
KB is to GB as GB to the thing that comes after TB
Yeah baby I'm talking PetaBytes!
But you are right, it is hard to fathom! But I bet it won't take thirty years.
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Timex Sinclair. The ram kept falling off.
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What does this mean?
Set up a test lab with a few meaty VM's and you could easily eat through that.
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There are enough servers out there that can already have over 1TB of RAM. Okay these are servers not desktops, but the technology is there.
32 virtual systems with 12 cores seems a bit difficult...
I'm sure you can do more with on a quad processor motherboard with 10 core Xeon E7's with 1TB of ram...
Well, 15 years ago it was 128MB. That makes it a 10 time increase each 15 years. You jumped MB in your logical calculation. That would make it 128KB 30 years ago, then 128MB 15 years ago and 128GB today. So in 15 years we "should" see 128TB RAM in computers and 128PT in 30 years
And now people will ridicule why we would EVER need that much RAM... I hope in 15 years the metric by which we allocate memory is completely different than a bunch of planar on/off switches.
Well, 15 years ago it was 128MB. That makes it a 10 time increase each 15 years. You jumped MB in your logical calculation. That would make it 128KB 30 years ago, then 128MB 15 years ago and 128GB today. So in 15 years we "should" see 128TB RAM in computers and 128PT in 30 years
Most probably, yes. But the computing speed should be increased exponentially in order to be able to handle all the data stored in such ram quantities. TBH, I wouldn't be sure if the CPU speeds will see such a speed increase.
We were pretty gobsmacked when this server turned up at my work 3 years ago
That's 256GB of RAM and 4 x 6 core processors with multithreading (48 threads).
Move forward three years to now and every server we purchase has 256GB RAM, 40 threads and is half the height of that blade.
