[Info-vax] Some good news !

[Arne Vajhøj]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>> Steven Underwood wrote:
>>>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>>>> I have heard nothing about Vista that would make me want to 
>>>>> upgrade.  If and when I get a new PC, I may very well just install 
>>>>> W/XP on it!
>>>>
>>>> I agree there is nothing to cause me to upgrade from XP on my other 
>>>> machines, but Apple advertisements not withstanding, I have not seen 
>>>> any major problems with Vista on machines designed for it.  I got my 
>>>> laptop with my new job with Vista Ultimate, and other than needing 
>>>> to max out the memory to get better than OK performance, I have had 
>>>> no issues at all with it. IMO, Microsoft's mistake was in setting 
>>>> the required memory value too low. 2 GB should have been minimum 
>>>> with 4 GB recommended.
>>>
>>> Talk about software bloat!!  My W/XP system runs quite happily in one 
>>> GB.   My wife's PC has less memory, I think, and it also runs W/XP 
>>> without problems.
>>
>> And?
>>
>> 2 GB cheap memory (DDR2 dual channel PC6400) costs around 20-30 dollars.
>> And 4 GB of the same 30-40 dollars.
>>
>> HW evolves.
>>
>> 1 MB - 4 MB - 32 MB - 512 MB - 2 GB - 8 GB - ....
>>
>> I don't see any reason why that trend should stop at 1 GB.
> 
> I have 1 GB.  I could add three more 1GB DIMMs but what would it do for 
> me?  Besides lightening my wallet by $30 or $40?
> 
> I reiterate: everything I need or want to do with the system can be done 
>  with the memory I now have.  If something could be done in 1/4 of a 
> second instead of 1/2 of a second . . .  what does it buy me?   If I 
> needed to do it 10,000 times a day I'd seriously consider maxing out the 
> memory.  I don't see that happening.

There may also be someone out there running a VAX 780 with VMS 1.0
and be perfectly happy with that.

But HP will either not support it or charge something like the GDP
of a medium size state for support.

And meanwhile the world has moved on.

Arne