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haxor@derp.fooMB to Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 2 years ago

Why do software nowadays take so much more memory and processing power

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Why do software nowadays take so much more memory and processing power

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haxor@derp.fooMB to Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 2 years ago
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Back then, when I was a kid, I got a computer with MS-DOS that could run Windows 95. The machine only got 800 MB of Hard Disk. I don’t know how much RAM it got - in fact, I didn’t even know what a RAM is, but it was enough to run games like Doom, Sim City 2000, Red Alert, etc. All the pixel good old days. All the regular works such as typing documents, etc. could be carried out as expected. Fast forward a bit, I got a new computer with Pentium 2 with GeForce 2. Amount of RAM for this machine sh...

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