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Guest
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| | Subject: Antique Internet Troll: Scott Nudds Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:58 pm | |
| I was looking around on the interwebs when I found this archive from '97, where a guy named Scott Nudds makes himself look silly in retrospect. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.intel/browse_thread/thread/8772d1046b81a7dd/997b88b071910370#997b88b071910370 Exponential growth is impossible to sustain for any appreciable length of time as a practical matter. The fact that current growth is exponential means that in short order we can expect it to abruptly halt. But this is not the reason PC's will never have gigabytes of RAM. | Quote: | The reason is simple. Somewhere in the 50 to 200 megabyte range, all applications, (or at least their active portion), will reside in memory. Doubling memory may allow the entire set of applications to reside in memory, but the performance gain will be small. The larger the memory capacity, the smaller the gain.
As a result, additional RAM memory will not be added. |
This PC has 8gb of RAM. |
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Guest
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| | Subject: Re: Antique Internet Troll: Scott Nudds Thu Jul 02, 2009 1:18 pm | |
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QuestEon
Number of posts: 842
Registration date: 2008-03-25
| | Subject: Re: Antique Internet Troll: Scott Nudds Thu Jul 02, 2009 1:30 pm | |
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Guest
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| | Subject: Re: Antique Internet Troll: Scott Nudds Thu Jul 02, 2009 1:33 pm | |
| He's apparently a Neo-Communist. |
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QuestEon
Number of posts: 842
Registration date: 2008-03-25
| | Subject: Re: Antique Internet Troll: Scott Nudds Thu Jul 02, 2009 1:47 pm | |
| | vichy wrote: | | He's apparently a Neo-Communist. |
We should kick his ass according to our abilities, and he should have his ass kicked according to his needs. |
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Guest
Guest
| | Subject: Re: Antique Internet Troll: Scott Nudds Thu Jul 02, 2009 3:28 pm | |
| | QuestEon wrote: | | vichy wrote: | | He's apparently a Neo-Communist. |
We should kick his ass according to our abilities, and he should have his ass kicked according to his needs. |
That's pretty good. |
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Bigus Dickus
Number of posts: 369
Location: Brazil
Registration date: 2008-06-05
| | Subject: Re: Antique Internet Troll: Scott Nudds Thu Jul 02, 2009 4:44 pm | |
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Paul
Number of posts: 208
Age: 21
Location: Washington
Registration date: 2009-02-06
| | Subject: Re: Antique Internet Troll: Scott Nudds Tue Aug 18, 2009 9:59 am | |
| Funny, cause I bet high performance servers back then had at least 1GB of RAM back then. |
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Guest
Guest
| | Subject: Re: Antique Internet Troll: Scott Nudds Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:36 am | |
| | Paul wrote: | | Funny, cause I bet high performance servers back then had at least 1GB of RAM back then. |
The beauty of idiot net trolls is that, believing they know everything, reference to the facts is unnecessary. |
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Paul
Number of posts: 208
Age: 21
Location: Washington
Registration date: 2009-02-06
| | Subject: Re: Antique Internet Troll: Scott Nudds Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:44 am | |
| | vichy wrote: | | Paul wrote: | | Funny, cause I bet high performance servers back then had at least 1GB of RAM back then. |
The beauty of idiot net trolls is that, believing they know everything, reference to the facts is unnecessary. |
| Quote: | | They see me trollin, they hatin... Moderatin and tryna catch me postin dirtay |
Gotta admit though, trolls can be fun. Or maybe it is fun to be a troll. I can't remember which. |
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Rezzealaux
Number of posts: 38
Age: 19
Location: On mai swivel chair :D
Registration date: 2009-08-16
| | Subject: Re: Antique Internet Troll: Scott Nudds Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:37 pm | |
| | Quote: | The reason is simple. Somewhere in the 50 to 200 megabyte range, all applications, (or at least their active portion), will reside in memory. Doubling memory may allow the entire set of applications to reside in memory, but the performance gain will be small. The larger the memory capacity, the smaller the gain.
As a result, additional RAM memory will not be added. |
Assuming I don't upgrade the rest of my comp, yeah, the gain gets smaller the more RAM I install..... but then again, that's assuming I don't upgrade the rest of my comp. |
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Guest
Guest
| | Subject: Re: Antique Internet Troll: Scott Nudds Tue Aug 18, 2009 4:45 pm | |
| | vichy wrote: | | The beauty of idiot net trolls is that, believing they know everything, reference to the facts is unnecessary. |
What? ANOTHER religion??? Oh no.
- NonE |
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Paul
Number of posts: 208
Age: 21
Location: Washington
Registration date: 2009-02-06
| | Subject: Re: Antique Internet Troll: Scott Nudds Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:35 pm | |
| | NonEntity wrote: | | vichy wrote: | | The beauty of idiot net trolls is that, believing they know everything, reference to the facts is unnecessary. |
What? ANOTHER religion??? Oh no.
- NonE |
We trolls worship at the altar of . |
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RogerDodger
Number of posts: 2
Registration date: 2009-12-22
| | Subject: Re: Antique Internet Troll: Scott Nudds Tue Dec 22, 2009 1:08 pm | |
| Funny to see this reanimated, I was a participant in the original discussion on comp C++ and comp C.
If I recall correctly scott was mostly on the C group, unmoderated, of course. I knew this would come back to bite him and I had his "prediction" (with attribution, of course) in my sig for a while.
The really sweet discussion was when he insisted that assembly language could be better and more portable than C, and so someone dubbed this new, imaginary language implementation SPASM, Scotts Portable ASeMbler.
Ah, good times.
Thanks for the memories. |
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