A Time of Magic

Not so long ago programs would easily run in 32K (yes, 32768 bytes!) but with every year that passes, it seems that we need ever increasing amounts of computer memory.

I’d thought that the 256MB of my previous computer would see me through a reasonable number of years but even a year after I bought the thing, it was pretty much crawling along as the graphical content of the latest websites just eats memory. Running the likes of Vista on that amount is, of course, a total nonstarter unless you have incredible amounts of patience to wait around for even the most trivial of tasks.

If you do find that your computer is running a touch slow then it’s almost certainly down to it not having enough memory for the tasks that you’re using it for. Since this is one of the cheapest upgrades that you can do, it’s well worth it to add another year or two of life to your computer

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