Monthly Archives: February 2008

Do You Remember?

According to Wikipedia, the Commodore 64 sold 30 million units during its lifetime. Each of those units came with 64 kilobytes of RAM. Today’s home-use machines have 1-4 gigabytes of RAM.
64-kB = 65536 bytes
1-GB = 1073741824 bytes
That’s a ratio of 16,384 times. For 4-GB it goes up to 65536. In other words a machine with …

February 26, 2008 – 11:40 am | By admin | Posted in Computology | Tagged , | Comments (0)

The Switch

I’ve done it. After 14 years of using Windows, I have switched to an alternative. I’m now running Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon on my main computer. I’ve been thinking about it for a while, so it wasn’t as drastic a change as it could have been.  (I’m still running Windows XP on an older machine …

February 17, 2008 – 8:34 pm | By admin | Posted in Computology | Tagged , | Comments (0)