Honestly, it’s oodles. We just build shitty software.
I am developing an NES game. I’m using an emulator that runs in Mono. It’s using over a gigabyte of RAM. The machine has two kilobytes. I ran NES games on a Windows 95 machine with 16 megabytes of RAM, and I expect that emulator would have tolerated quite a bit less.
Great, so it’ll take AI to set 16GB as minimum.
I still shudder that there are machines still being sold with 8GB RAM, that’s just barely enough.
It’s honestly crazy to think about that we used to say the same about 4GB only 5-7 years ago…
And the same about 2GB a measly 10 years ago…
5 years ago I used to think 32GB was great. Now I regularly cap out and start page filing doing my normal day-to-day work on 48GB. It’s crazy now.
Honestly, it’s oodles. We just build shitty software.
I am developing an NES game. I’m using an emulator that runs in Mono. It’s using over a gigabyte of RAM. The machine has two kilobytes. I ran NES games on a Windows 95 machine with 16 megabytes of RAM, and I expect that emulator would have tolerated quite a bit less.