Comments on: The Power Of A 500 MHz Pentium III System With 128 MB of RAM http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/archives/69/ Archive from the trenches of the IT World Blog. Mon, 15 Nov 2010 03:47:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Calin Vlad http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/archives/69/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Calin Vlad Thu, 01 Apr 2010 23:18:24 +0000 http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/?p=8#comment-53 Oh yeah those were the glorious days of the computer... When with 64 kb on a 286 and EGA graphic adapter you could run MS-DOS with Norton Commander and also Windows 3.1 and you could play games like Prince of Persia or Commander Keen... It makes me feel odd now with all this multi processor environments and tons of RAM people are still unhappy... never tell you that symphony of the Tape charging Ghost buster in my zilog80 makes me thing .... when the hack we will use AI in our day-life ... Remember Asimov... Oh yeah those were the glorious days of the computer… When with 64 kb on a 286 and EGA graphic adapter you could run MS-DOS with Norton Commander and also Windows 3.1 and you could play games like Prince of Persia or Commander Keen… It makes me feel odd now with all this multi processor environments and tons of RAM people are still unhappy… never tell you that symphony of the Tape charging Ghost buster in my zilog80 makes me thing …. when the hack we will use AI in our day-life … Remember Asimov…

]]> By: @OlhoNaTV http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/archives/69/comment-page-1/#comment-51 @OlhoNaTV Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:59:32 +0000 http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/?p=8#comment-51 It´s so powerful! It´s so powerful!

]]> By: Bill http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/archives/69/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Bill Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:13:07 +0000 http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/?p=8#comment-47 I would have to agree with you about the "low memory" systems of today... This machine has 2GB installed, it works well with Windows Vista H.P. My laptop has 256MB, and it's a P2 400 thinkpad running Kubuntu 7.04. Believe it or not, the laptop does many of the same things the desktop does at nearly the same speed! I even still have a working Amstrad PPC512, which has only 512KB RAM installed, and no hard disk, yet it works perfectly for word processing or as a terminal. My wife has a laptop with 64MB RAM, Pentium 266 MMX, running Puppy Linux 2.15CE. It doesn't have any problem going online with a Prism2 PCMCIA card, though you must be patient with some sites. Point is, you don't need tons of RAM to make a system usable, it just depends on the Operating System you choose for it, as some are resource hogs and some are more efficient. My first computer was a TRS-80 model 4, I think it had either 32 or 64 KB RAM in it, and it had an external hard disk. I used that machine right into high school with no problems for text-only stuff until it finally died due to a power surge. Anyhow, that's my 2 cents worth. -Bill I would have to agree with you about the “low memory” systems of today…

This machine has 2GB installed, it works well with Windows Vista H.P. My laptop has 256MB, and it’s a P2 400 thinkpad running Kubuntu 7.04. Believe it or not, the laptop does many of the same things the desktop does at nearly the same speed!

I even still have a working Amstrad PPC512, which has only 512KB RAM installed, and no hard disk, yet it works perfectly for word processing or as a terminal.

My wife has a laptop with 64MB RAM, Pentium 266 MMX, running Puppy Linux 2.15CE. It doesn’t have any problem going online with a Prism2 PCMCIA card, though you must be patient with some sites.

Point is, you don’t need tons of RAM to make a system usable, it just depends on the Operating System you choose for it, as some are resource hogs and some are more efficient.

My first computer was a TRS-80 model 4, I think it had either 32 or 64 KB RAM in it, and it had an external hard disk. I used that machine right into high school with no problems for text-only stuff until it finally died due to a power surge.

Anyhow, that’s my 2 cents worth.
-Bill

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