Now Microsoft tells us that Windows XP will need 256MB of RAM (!) for “acceptable performance.” Aren’t things getting just a little out of hand here? How hard can the tail wag the dog? Being the geek that I am, I remember getting a Commodore 64 (great computer!) and being astonished at having 64K (!!) of RAM. What would anyone do with that amount of memory? It had word processing, cool games (Jumpman!), and pretty much everything you needed in a computer. Where oh where have those days gone? (Cue Dana Carvey’s grumpy old man: “When I was a boy, we ate dirt and we liked it!”)
I promise I will try to refrain from the exclamation marks in future.