Way down the rabbit hole

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/1/2011 1:29 PM, Maurice O'Prey wrote:
> On 1/1/2011 11:26 (or thereabouts) AM, Joe wrote:
>
> > I'm not even sure where to take this particular question, Maurice.   A
> > single-user MS-DOS machine compared to an IBM i?  How do these even
> > compare?  One runs an enterprise, the other runs (maybe) a store front.
> > How do you compare these?
> For starters they have a CPU, memory and a hard disk (a bit like a computer
> I suppose), and then they obviously have an operating system, that is how I
> would compare them.

And then you go on to completely ignore my comparison... <grin>  And 
that being the case, I decided to just re-name the thread and then it 
can die a peaceful, off-topic death. <smile>


> > It's interesting that you
> > bring up music, because multimedia machines now require 64-bit Windows
> > because they need more than 4GB of memory to run efficiently.  But come
> > on - why do you need a gigabyte of RAM to run Office?  Just wondering.
> Sorry I disagree, the majority of pro recording (PC) applications run on
> windows XP with maybe 2GB of ram, indeed many a recording pro will advise
> you to use XP (you don't need 64 bit at all)

Sorry I should have been a bit more specific.  I was talking about 
multimedia, which includes video as well.  Full video rendering really 
requires upwards of 4GB to be efficient.  But I did get that information 
second-hand from my brother, who's one of those weird guitarists.  In 
fact, he's even stranger, he's a bass player <chuckle>.

Joe