1981: My software company employer had a PDP-11/70 running the RSTS/E operating system with a whomping one MEGAbyte of memory.
The machine was way overloaded and spent so much time housekeeping it had little time left for anything else. We bitched up a storm about lost productivity, etc.
Finally the powers that be agreed to a memory upgrade. They bought another one MEGAbyte of memory for $3,000.00.
Productivity soared. Technology is truly amazing.
Finally the powers that be agreed to a memory upgrade ... Productivity soared. Technology is truly amazing.
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Still holds true today. My “algorithm” for buying a computer is:
1) biggest monitor
2) the most RAM right now, and later
... everything else is secondary.