My 32-bit machines don't seem to suffer from the lack of >4GB of RAM. Maybe I'm not demanding enough.

I use an old 1 MB box to generate my 'C' programs, under DOS, of course, and I use another of them to program my PLD's and do other jobs like that. One box has 16 MB so it can run a PCB router that works WAY better and faster han any of the multi-k$ Windows programs I have. That same box also runs my old accounting package and prints checks on an old dot-matrix printer that prints multi-part forms. It's a 30-year-old program that runs under CP/M in a simulator under DOS. No Windows app has demonstrated itself to be "better" than those old tools.

Eventually, those HLL-programmers that generate the gigabytes of wasted program space for Windows will need >256 TB of space just to run HELLO.C because it's too much trouble to prune the libraries.

For generations, now, hardware has doubled or quadrupled the performance of the system, only to have the software reduce it by 16. When will it end?

RE