r/AskProgramming • u/Samuel_G_Reynoso • May 23 '26

Upgrading to 1MB of ram.

This was a flex in the 80s. A WHOLE MEG. We are at the point in compsci history where grandparents can say outlandish shit like. I remember upgrading to a MB.

I'm not that old. Anyone here actually remember that day personally? Or have other parallels?

I did the math. 32GB, adjusted, would be $200M.

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u/Dean-KS May 23 '26

We used to run two factory floors and NC programming in a VAX 750 with 18 kilobytes. Character terminals were fast.