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Originally Posted by hobnail
I'm a geezer and remember when my computer's ram was measured in kilobytes and the disks were single digit megabytes. So even though I have gobs of ram and disk I still fret about installing unnecessary apps that I rarely, if ever, use.
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In Core (Memory) we trust.
Memory was measured in WORDS that it supported (8, 12, 16 bits) until some marketing type found that Bytes gave a bigger (but honest) number.
(Same happened with TV screens. They used to be measured Across until the Diagonal advertising hit )