4 GB RAM limit

[moonwalkers]

When I was a kid, my computer had 8 kilobytes of RAM. I also walked to school through the snow uphill both ways.

When I was a kid, my first computer had only 300-something (372? Definitely not 320 or 384) bytes of RAM with a bit-serial CPU (that is, performing operations on individual bits rather than 4-, 8-, or more bit words). I could run up to 105 steps long programs on it. There were games too, but the 7-segment vacuum fluorescent display could only show numbers with some odd characters, so those games were mostly played in your own imagination. My commute to school was taking about an hour and involved a half-hour ride in trolley and a half-hour walk (in the winter - through snow, in autumn/spring - through muck)... This is not a competition, somebody always has a bigger.

But if you were trying to say that having experiences of the severe limitations can give you some perspective on issues like "4GiB RAM is too little" - I agree.

P.S.: I'm not that old, just was born in a country that got seriously #$@ked up by communist ideology.