Linked by John O'Sullivan on Fri 17th Oct 2003 17:48 UTC
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." Bill Gates, 1981. "64 bit is coming to desktops,there is no doubt about that, But apart from Photoshop, I can't think of desktop applications where you would need more than 4 gigabytes of physical memory, which is what you have to have in order to benefit from this technology." It seems to me that by the time it ships, Longhorn will need 4 gigs of RAM.
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yeah, well windows should rethink its Memory management.
rather than try to minimize the amount of ram a program takes up, it should allow a program to take as much as it might need if the memory is available.
if the machine is just sitting there with no programs running, I want the OS to run with as much memory as it needs so when I open explore or some other OS component, it just opens ready for use.
when I am running applications, I want them to be able to take as much RAM as they need to make the program run great as well. of course, you need to take memory away when the RAM fills up and you want to run more programs, but so what, up until that point you have minimized swapping very effectively.
if you try to make programs use as little memory as possible, you end up playing games where the program swaps out a lot and might even choke.
why have a gig of memory if all you are going to do is manage it like I have no memory?