Compatibility of old(ish) Software with Windows 7

[Robert Lauriston]

That's a false generalization. The 4MB in my several Windows systems
is twice as much as I have ever needed.

On the Mac I'm testing large-footprint server software in multiple
VMs, so 8GB is cramped, but if I could swap my Mac for had two real
PCs running 32-bit Linux with 4GB each I'd have better performance
with fewer compatibility problems at a lower price.

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Matt Sullivan <sullivanmattr at gmail.com> wrote:
> So adding RAM to your system would make your system(s) more usable...thx for
> clarifying.
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> -Matt
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> On Feb 19, 2014, at 9:00 AM, Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com> wrote:
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> If you're using only half the RAM you have, as is the case for my 4GB
> Windows systems, adding more won't speed things up.
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> If you load more software than will fit in the amount of RAM you have,
> your system will slow down so much it might as well have crashed. That
> happened to me at work the other day: I have two VMs running
> enterprise software, they take up 3GB each, and my Mac has only 8GB.
> If I start a third VM by mistake, the system becomes totally
> unresponsive.
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